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<DIV><SPAN class=500331319-19052000><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial
size=3>Webster's New World, Random House, and American Heritage all show
'PATina' first and 'paTEEna' second (fairly recent editions).
Merriam-Webster has it the other way around; the two variants were transposed
for the Ninth Collegiate edition, 1983, presumably because of evidence for a
change in prevailing pronunciation. But none of the dictionaries mark
their second pronunciation shown as a limited or disputed one, so the
implication is that both are common in the U.S., and that usage may be pretty
evenly split (one or the other must be placed first, of course, even if the two
are equally common). The Gage Canadian Dict (1983) and the Concise
Oxford Dict (1990) show only the 'PATina' pronunciation.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> American Dialect Society
[mailto:ADS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]<B>On Behalf Of</B> Victoria
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial size=2>Hope someone can clear this up
for me. I am an artist working with metals and often finish the work
with a Patina. I have always heard it pronounced with the accent on
the second syllable..</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial size=2>and pronounced pa-TEEN-ah.
The dictionary puts the accent on the first ...PAT-in-ah.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial size=2>Is this an American/British
difference or what?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Arial size=2>Thanks and sorry if this is a
very basic question...I'm an artist not a linguist...</FONT></DIV>
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