To pronounce "nihilist" this way?

[PitilessYank]

I say it like this:

"Nee-hilist"

But in polling my friends, 9/10 say "neye-hilist."

Which sounds more correct?

"Today 13:40 BratFarrarsPony

" - don't you wonder why others don't pronounce it your way, if, as you must think, your way is correct? "

some say egg -oh some say eeego...it is not that important is it? I mean I am not going to get into an argument about it or anything...wink

I only started saying egg-oh after spending some time in Greece and learning the language."

That's a cool reason. Carry on.

Thank you Cara...
Just one thing though....
If the stress in Desdemona is not on the first syllable... where is it?

Sorry, I meant the SECOND syllable.

oh lol yes that would sound a bit silly....

some say egg -oh

If by "some" you mean just you, then yes.

Literally nobody else in the entire country says egg-oh.

Ignore all hs. Neye-il-ist.

"Literally nobody else in the entire country says egg-oh."

Riiight. You will have checked, of course?

" Literally nobody else in the entire country says egg-oh. "

well when you have done some empirical research on that, with a large sample size from people across the country, backed up by an ANOVA study, let me know btw could you define 'nobody else'? and 'entire'?
In the meantime I shall carry on !
Have a nice day and don't let your egg-oh define you!

Riiight. You will have checked, of course?

Yep, just did a quick poll.

Eggo is an American brand of frozen waffle.

Nye-(h)il-ist.

I learned the word from Sue Townsend, when Adrian Mole in a fit of teenage angst ran away. A nice vicar's wife found him sleeping rough in a graveyard and took him back to the house. "I told her I was an existential nihilist. " Never mind dear," she said, "You'll grow out of it."

Oh Sue Townsend! Genius!

I studied pschodynamic theory at uni and was always teased for pronouncing Oedipal as eed-i-pal, rather than o-ed-i-pal as other students and lecturers did. I tried to do it their way but it just sounded wrong to me. It didn't stop me getting tip-top marks for my essay on eedipal forces in personality development.
There was also a fairly even divide between egg-o and eeg-o. I am still not sure which is 'right'. I reasoned they were all ok along the lines of barth and bath.

Nile-ist. That's what I'd say.

I learnt it from Adrian Mole too Sukey. But have only recently found out who Malcolm Muggeridge is!

Liinoo

Even the lecturers said o-ed-ipal?? I would've changed university!

I have heard coccyx pronounced "cock-iks". Has anyone ever heard this?

'Ego' is most definitely Latin and not Greek. One of the first things we were taught in Latin at school was 'ego sum' - I am.

Liinoo are you sure they weren't just pausing to remember the name? As in "He's got an... ohhh... Oedipal complex."

Why are you all talking about nihilists all the time anyway? I cannot think of a time in the last year when I've needed to use the word. You need to be much more lowbrow - velvet any problems pronouncing Strictly or Pointless!

It's Ny-Uh-List I believe

Neye-il-ist and Neye-(h)il-ist are adding in extra 'i' and are therefore wrong IMO

Ego means "I" in Latin as well as Greek. So it is not wro0ng to say it is from the Latin

I think it is more commonly tagged in Latin phrases like "et in Arcadia, ego" than in Greek.

Agree that the pronunciation in this sense is egg-o

I used to teach Freudian / Jungian Theory and I pronounced 'Oedipal' and 'Eed-a-pal' and 'Ego' as 'Eeego'. As did all of my colleagues.

"ChewedUpRope

Riiight. You will have checked, of course?

Yep, just did a quick poll."

I feel compelled to ask whether you know the meaning of "literally"?

Egg-oh? Really? Don't you feel silly when everyone else is saying it normally?!

Ego means "I" in Latin as well as Greek. So it is not wrong to say it is from the Latin

Definitely not. :) I assumed that BratFarrarsPony just meant that she'd picked up the pronunciation from learning Greek rather than Latin, that's all - after I Googled and discovered that it means 'I' in Greek, too, which I didn't know!