The Pronounciation of D-Addicts!

Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 9:46 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

But she does have a point, some of us are really dicks.

Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 4:17 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I'm thinking that we're comparing where the stress is on the word addicts maybe.
Like stress on the A so it's AAAAAHHH-dicts or the stress on the other half so it's Ah-dicts.

Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 4:55 am Post subject: pronunciation Post Rating: 0

Another way to look at it is that 'addicts', the verb (as in
"she addicts herself to Asian drama"), has its stress on the 2nd syllable and
the 'a' sound is unstressed (kind of an "uhhh" sound, also called the "schwa" sound,
as found in the vowel sound of the 2nd syllables of 'apple' or 'riot'),
while 'addicts', the plural noun (as in "they are all just a bunch of Liar Game addicts"),
has its stress on the 1st syllable, which - due to the stress - is what in English is
called the "short a" sound, as in "hat" or the 1st syllable of "apple" (as opposed
to what nearly every other western language calls the "short a" sound, which
is closer to the vowel sound in the English "what" or "hot"), phonetically represented
by the Old English letter 'aesc' (sort of an 'a' blended with an 'e': the HTML code æ
will display it for ISO8859-1 encoding and some others).

I think of 'd-addicts" as using "dee" plus the noun pronunciation of "addicts",
but I suppose a case could be made for the verb pronunciation.