From: julie@pascal.org

On Friday, May 16, 2014 11:13:06 PM UTC-6, William Vetter wrote:
> People who have not had formal education, but have learned primarily from
books, even though they may have learned more than many people who have
completed degrees, can teach themselves to pronounce unfamiliar words as they
are written.
> 
> 
> 
> One afternoon, I was talking to a laboratory stockman at his counter.  He
was excited because he had bought a new telescope, and wanted to use the
setting circles to find the Ring Nebula and so forth, and he was telling me
about sidereal time.  He 
pronounced it "SIDE REAL."


Er....

Honest, I don't think I've ever heard that word spoken.

-Julie

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