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[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

Sax-oh-fo-nay

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 11 months ago

Huh, the way I say Persephone (per-seh-fuh-knee), Saxophone would be pronounced sax-aw-fuh-knee or maybe sax-oh-phony (the way I say saxophone normally in my accent is sacks-uh-phone)

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Yeah, "ay" at the end is closer to the original Greek than the "ee" way we say it in English.

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 11 months ago

TIL, thanks!

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