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Why is the Word Arithmetic pronounced like that?
The word arethmetic is pronounced like (areth-matic). Is there an explanation to that?
please answer ASAP

2007-09-07 20:35:45 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Mathematics

6 answers

It's just one of the many, many vague things about language ☺

Doug

2007-09-07 20:54:05 · answer #1 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 0 0

I'm not sure what answer you are expecting. If you want to know which is the morally correct pronunciation, then I would argue there is none. As for why there are variations, it is because people are choosing different ways to pronounce the first and last "A." Some prefer an "ah" while others rather use an "eh."

Maybe this difference is related to differences in dialect. Speakers of American English utilize fewer phonemes than that of speakers of British English. For example, British English utilizes three phonemes to represent "A" sounds while American English utilizes only two (it has been further reduced to just one in recent history among some individuals).

It is important to remember that 'mispronunciations' of words are natural in spoken languages and that itdoesn't correspond to a person's intelligence.

2007-09-08 00:40:34 · answer #2 · answered by Sam 2 · 0 0

I don`t know how the word Arithmetic is pronounced, but it comes from the Greek word arithmós, that means "number", so, I guess that the pronountiation must be pretty much the same than in Spanish and than in Greek

Ilusion

2007-09-09 10:51:59 · answer #3 · answered by Ilusion 4 · 0 0

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2016-12-31 16:35:38 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Arithmetic is pronounced this way: [ə ríthmə tik].

Unlike Spanish, Italian or other languages, English is a nonphonetic language. That is, it does not follow that how it is spelled or written is pronounced the same way. French is one classic example of a nonphonetic language.

2007-09-11 19:02:14 · answer #5 · answered by Jun Agruda 7 · 3 0

I cant seem to find any exlanation as to why, in English Language, a lot of words are pronounced the way they are pronounced..........

why explanation not spelled as explanashen? and why not es instead of is, pronownsed instead of pronounced, lik instead of like, pleese instead of please.... etc etc


English is not a perfect language....like sanskrit or hindi

2007-09-07 20:48:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

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