Humira pronunciation

[Tom Zurinskas]

>>> Saw an ad for Humira, the anti-rheumatoid arthritis drug, in a>>> recent copy>>> of Arthritis Health Monitor. In the "Consumer Brief>>> Summary" (shouldn't>>> that be "Brief Consumer Summary"?) they give its pronunciation as>>> "HU-MARE-AH."

I would have guessed ~Hyuemiru  (or ~Hyuemmeeru)

~ue as in "true",
stressed first syllable, (or ~mm for stressed second syllable, which would probably change ~i to ~ee)
~i as in "it", and
~u as in "up" (in English words ending in letter "a" are typically ~u "uh")


Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
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> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:05:15 -0500
> From: faber at HASKINS.YALE.EDU
> Subject: Re: Humira pronunciation
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> Poster: Alice Faber
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> Agreed. But MARE could be pronounced /miyr/.
>
> Benjamin Lukoff wrote:
>> Odd. I wouldn't think "mir" would be "MARE" in any variety of SAE.
>>
>> On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Barbara Need wrote:
>>
>>> Well, that's what they have been saying on the TV ads (with stress on
>>> the second syllable). Though recent takes seem to be raising to lax [I].
>>>
>>> Barbara
>>>
>>> On 20 Feb 2008, at 15:02, Benjamin Lukoff wrote:
>>>
>>>> Saw an ad for Humira, the anti-rheumatoid arthritis drug, in a
>>>> recent copy
>>>> of Arthritis Health Monitor. In the "Consumer Brief
>>>> Summary" (shouldn't
>>>> that be "Brief Consumer Summary"?) they give its pronunciation as
>>>> "HU-MARE-AH." Leaving aside for the moment the fact that, in all
>>>> caps, you
>>>> can't tell where the stress is supposed to go (it's on the second
>>>> syllable, as it turns out), I was surprised to see "MARE" instead of
>>>> "MEER" or "MEYE." Does this have anything to do with the fact that
>>>> Abbott
>>>> Labs is headquartered in North Chicago?
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