[Ads-l] Antedating of "Apartheid"

[Baker, John]

Although the “apart hide” pronunciation seems to be more or less standard in American English, there are a number of online sources, many of them seemingly quite knowledgeable, that agree that it should be pronounced “apart hate.”


John Baker


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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.


On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 1:02 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu<mailto:fred.shapiro at yale.edu>> wrote:

> 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.
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> Fred Shapiro
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