economics

[DodgyAccountant]

Ek-onomics

or

Eek-onomics

?

There's only one way to pronounce

dismal science

[OwlHoot]

Where is he from? There must be a reason he talks so silly.

I think he's British, oddly enough, although I vaguely recall him mentioning having once lived in New Zealand for a while.

[VectraMan]

'nomics

[BrilloPad]

Whatever AtW says I agree with.

[SueEllen]

P.S. Next week I'll ask the guy who sits behind me at clientco, and (constantly!) pronounces "data" and "project" as "darter" and "proaject"

Where is he from? There must be a reason he talks so silly.

[OwlHoot]

It's one of several words that used to start with an "oe" ligature, such as oestrus and oesophagus.

So although it would be ridiculous to spell it "oeconomics" these days, that indicates the proper pronunciation is "eek", just as the name "Phoebe" is pronounced "feebie" and those other examples are pronounced eestrus and eesophagus

Mind you if it follows an "e", such as in "the economy", I'd pronounce it more like "ick", simply to distinguish the two "e"s. Maybe that's where the "eck" pronunciation originated.

P.S. Next week I'll ask the guy who sits behind me at clientco, and (constantly!) pronounces "data" and "project" as "darter" and "proaject"

[bless 'em all]

Reflected sounds of underground spirits.

[suityou01]

Well I say Eek - so that must be the posh one.

Child #3 is doing it for GCSE and has switched from eek to ek, 'coz that's wot teacher sez.

Send the teacher your sincerest contrafibularities.

[mudskipper]

BBC - Magazine Monitor: How to Say: Economics


Oik-onomics. I quite like it.

[mudskipper]

Well I say Eek - so that must be the posh one.

Child #3 is doing it for GCSE and has switched from eek to ek, 'coz that's wot teacher sez.

[suityou01]

Ek-onomics

or

Eek-onomics

?

Whichever ones poshest.

Suity in chav from Luton trying to do better mode.

[mudskipper]

Ek-onomics

or

Eek-onomics

?