[Ads-l] Diaspora

[Ben Zimmer]

Surely the more relevant influence here would be the pronunciation of
"diasporic" with penultimate stress?

On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 4:28 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> I've only ever heard the antepenult version, and indeed find only that
> option in various dictionaries. Probably a spelling pronunciation by
> someone who noticed the presence in the root of "spore".  Or is a fan of
> dinosaura.
>
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 4:10 PM Bwh031451 <bwh031451 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > pronounced as DI-a-SPOR-ah by Nermeen Shaik on Democracy Now!
> >  https://www.democracynow.org/2022/12/15/iran_protests_sussan_tahmasebi
> > (40:30)
> >
> > Merriam-Webster has only second-syllable accent
> >
> > https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/diaspora
> >
>

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