http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/30/spelling.bee.ap/index.html Thought this was neat.... and I'm not talking about the kid who won the spelling bee either, but if you read to the end of the article you will know what I'm talking about. I don't want to give it away, so you will have to read the article.
I'll take the prise they gave to the old time winner , in bullion it's almost worth $30,000 , imagine if they were all MS hot off the press . rzage
Wow so the first spelling bee awarded 25 double eagles. Interesting little fun fact. Imagine what all that would be worth now =P
Spell it? Actually, learning to spell N-U-M-I-S-M-A-T-I-S-T was easy. I am still having trouble pronouncing the word. jeankay
I might have been a stamp collector but 'numismatist' was much easier to spell and pronounce than 'philatelist'. :mouth:
'philatelist'. :mouth:[/quote] So *how* do you pronounce that word? By the way, collecting rocks was much easier... Rockhound is much easier to spell and pronounce. Back to the dictionary.... jeankay
OK - now let's really start an argument According to the dictionary it is pronounced - noo-miz-muh-tist. I think the dictionaries are wrong. I think the emphasis and accent are in the wrong place. The word numismatics is - noo-miz-mat-iks. I think numismatist should be the same - noo-miz-mat-ist.
I disagree. English is a strange language where every rule and every usage seems to have an exception or two (or more). Just because a particular syllable is emphasized in one word it does not necessarily mean that same syllable must be emphasized in a similar word. Take 'mathematics'. We pronounce that word ma-the-maa-tics but we pronounce the word 'mathematician' ma-the-ma-ti-shun. How odd would it be if we pronounced it ma-the-maa-ti-shun?
no no Doug it should be new-miss-mat-eeks especially since every colelctor has to go through those 4 stages at some time or the other