Pron. of "pathos"

[Wilson Gray]

Merciful speed! (This is something that my mother uses in
circumstances such as these. I've never been certain of its meaning.)
I've never heard "kudo" or "kudos" spoken, so I wasn't aware of this.

Perhaps we need a law stating that, if you haven't learned the word,
its pronunciation, and its use by the time that you've graduated from
high school, you *must* consult a prescriptive grammar or an
unabridged dictionary before attempting to put that word into play in
any fashion. ;-)

-Wilson

On 8/14/07, sagehen <sagehen at westelcom.com> wrote:
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> >Perhaps he was attempting to impress by giving the word a more
> >native-Greek-like coloring, except that the "o" is omicron and not
> >omega, hence not like the "o" in "both."
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> >-Wilson
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>  Could be.  At least the short /o/  sound  for alpha in the first syllable
> wouldn't be bad.  For the rest, reminds me of  the usual rendering of
> "kudos" as  if it were the plural of / kudo/, and given a long /o/.
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