Heard: "loci" with [k]

[Herb Stahlke]

In the rather church influenced Lutheran academy I attended in Milwaukee,
it was [lotsi].

Herb


On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 2/22/2013 06:59 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> >You mean it isn't homonymous with "Loki"?
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> Wilson, you've been tricked.
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> >That's how I've always said it.
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> Me too.  Or did I say "locuses"?
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> >And I got an A in geometry. Eventually.
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> And I heard it in math class.  Perhaps that's why I got an A quickly.
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> But has anyone looked at the OED's pronunciation of "locus" and
> "loci"?  Or why it does not tell us how to pronounce "foci"?  (Which
> I say with [s].  Perhaps because [k] would bring it too close to the
> F-word.)  Or infer how one would pronounce, let alone spell, the
> plural of "hocus"?
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> Joel
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> >JL
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> >On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu
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> > > not
> > >               [nDZ] [NT]
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> > > On Feb 21, 2013, at 11:17 PM, Scott wrote:
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> > > > Not two words one usually hears in conversation; however, it seems to
> > > > me that here in Montana the pronunciations you indicate are usual. In
> > > > fact, ISTR a lame joke: "He always orders his pizza with mushrooms;
> > > > he's a real fun guy!"
> > > >
> > > > Scott Swanson
> > > >
> > > And if those unsoftened velars were good enough for [iulius kaisar]
> > > they're good enough for me!  (OK, I admit I do soften those velars
> myself,
> > > but I would fight to the death your right to retroactively harden
> them.)
> > >
> > > LH
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