[Ads-l] Antedating of "Apartheid"

[Herbert F. Stahlke]

I learned a German pronunciation at school, not surprising at a Lutheran boarding school in Milwaukee, and pronounced it "a-PART-height," obviously not Afrikaans.

On July 18, 2020, at 11:30 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:

> On Jul 18, 2020, at 5:01 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> Some time more or less in the same era, LIFE published an article on
> apartheid. The article, among other things, explained that _apartheid_ is
> an Afrikaans word and that its pronunciation is approximately "apart-hate."
> 
> Apparently, nobody else in the English-speaking world read this article.
> I've heard this word pronounced as bizarrely as "appe(r)tite" even by UK
> speakers.

I’ve mostly heard it as a-PAR-tide.


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> On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 1:02 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
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>> apartheid (OED 1947 Oct.)
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>> 1947 _Rand Daily Mail_ 23 Jan. 9/3 (Readex)  The Opposition had no native
>> policy. He [S. J. Tighy] had asked the Leader of the Opposition for a
>> definition of the word "apartheid." It could not be found in any dictionary.
>> 
>> Fred Shapiro
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