[Ads-l] Detrius surely counts, too

[Laurence Horn]

How would "detrius" be pronounced?  Rhyming with "bias"? With "Prius"? With antepenult stress, sort of like "vitreous"? None of the above? Or maybe it can't be pronounced at all, just written?

LH


> On Mar 27, 2015, at 4:42 AM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM> wrote:
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> Two of us in my writing group today claimed the word is "detrius" and two that the word is "detritus." And all four of us claimed the other word didn't exist.
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> The Oxford Dictionary site and Wiktionary have only detritus, and https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__byjane.blogspot.com_2007_05_detritus-2Dnot-2Ddetrius.html&d=AwICaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=kZTgiI7S0YWTMzteCudM6Bc6lKV6VfJ-gXUCe5vWZIc&s=vuvMjV5EiI7Czb79Mmywhok0zsyi_I8DP5eKZJzPt-M&e=  explains that "detrius" is wrong.
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> Google Books provides something like 2,000 hits for "detrius," including many scientific works (and some not English), so perhaps this is worthy of entry.
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> Benjamin Barrett
> Formerly of Seattle, WA
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