Q: describing how one reads text

[Laurence Horn]

At 1:52 PM +0000 6/7/09, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
>  >boustrophedon
>
>~buestruffeedin  (boo-struh-FEED-in)  USA
>~boustrraapdin  (bough-STROP-din)  UK
>
>Interestingly big accent difference according to
>the speakers in thefreedictionary.com
>
>Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
>see truespel.com
>

Hmmm. I guess I've always used a spelling
pronunciation myself, one distinct from both of
those, having only seen the word in print:
/bu'straf at dan/, with primary stress on the
antepenult and secondary stress on the final
syllable.  (I mostly pronounce the word in
connection with my Words class, in discussing
cognate relations among words and languages.)

LH

P.S.  The OED actually indicates a different
pronunciation choice, /baustro'fid at n/.  (I don't
see /bau'strOpdIn/, which I assume is what the
"bough-STROP-din" above corresponds to.)

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>>  At 6/7/2009 09:28 AM, Stephen Goranson wrote:
>>>boustrophedon
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>>  That's the word I was looking for (and due to not remembering it well
>>  enough, did not find it in the OED) for text that's "(Written)
>>  alternately from right to left and from left to right, like the
>>  course of the plough in successive furrows." But I am looking (also)
>>  for a word -- if one exists -- to describe text that's written always
>>  in the same direction on successive lines.
>>
>>  (And in passing, would "boustrophedon" apply also to text written
>>  vertically, if lines were written alternately from top to bottom and
>>  bottom to top?)
>>
>>  Joel
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>>>Quoting "Joel S. Berson" :
>>>
>>>>Is there a word to describe how one's eye moves when reading
>>>>(Occidental) text -- horizontally along the line, then down one line
>>>>and back to the starting edge?
>>>>
>>>>I have a very faint recollection of a word that applies to text where
>>>>one went one line down but continued reading from the edge that was
>>>>the end of the preceding line (that is, left to right, then right to
>>>>left, etc.) -- but it's so faint that all I seem to remember is that
>>>>it began with a "b".
>>>>
>>>>Joel
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