Comments on: How Do You Say “Polytropos”?

By: nate

nate — Wed, 06 Aug 2003 14:48:52 +0000

Dan — Comments like that aren’t gonna get you any linking love when you start your blog, man.

By: Dan Voetberg

Dan Voetberg — Wed, 06 Aug 2003 14:02:02 +0000

I’ve just been pronouncing it “Nate’s pretentious blather,” but I guess I was a little off there. Oops. Silly me for having only taken Latin and not Greek.

By: Bryan Smith

Bryan Smith — Tue, 05 Aug 2003 16:38:36 +0000

I had been “saying” it wrong in my head. Thanks for setting the record straight. Although, correct, it does seem more awkward than “Polly-TRO-pos”. Oh well. Now that we have a handle on that one, how do you pronounce “Gigli”?

By: Jim Henley

Jim Henley — Mon, 04 Aug 2003 11:40:04 +0000

I think the reason “Polly-TRO-pos” sounds right is actually that POLLY sounds right to us. We’re used to polymath and polynomial and such. It throws us off.