How do you pronounce 'Oxymoron'?

[msrisotto]

I pronounce 'oxy' 'moron'.
My DH pronounces it 'oximoran' - stress on the i. He's the weird one, right?

Ox-ee-moron

Oxy-more-on, I think. I can't recall ever having said it out loud .

Just found this , think it proves i'm right! [smug]

The stress is in the second syllable so he is right.

Hmm, OED agrees with me

that will teach me to click on the first google link I find...(some non-descript online dictionary thingy)

Oxy-More-On still doesn't sound as nice though, but always good when a dp is wrong!

Gah! That was supposed to be a

I'll give up for today I think.

This one of dh's favourite terms and he would say it just as you do.

I thought it was ox-i-mirin too.

I can't even work out how your DP says it.

I pronounce it like you. Or 'the right and only way' if you like.

You are right. I've never heard of the other way. I think that DrinkSangria and your DH should go & stand in the corner.

Ox (the animal)
Ee (by gum)
More
On

Stress on the first bit of "more"

It's really hard to spell it out phonetically Grantaire, but i'll give it another try!

Ox
i (as in tip)
ma (as in marine? majestic?)
run

Emphasis on the i - second syllable.

The last 2 syllables are all squashed together so it's hard to hear the vowel sounds.

oxImmer'n?

I'm uncertain but I have definitely heard it pronounced both ways by Cambridge English faculty. I actually prefer ox-im-eron to oxy-moron but have so little opportunity to use it these days...

YES Grantaire!

I registered for this account just to answer this question. I don't know if the "y" sound is correct at all, but ox-sim (like the game Sims or Simpson) er (like grrrr/er)-on I know is in fact correct. Even dictionaries don't have this pronunciation, and it is very difficult to hear someone say it the right way. I think society has actually changed the pronunciation and the old pronunciation is obsolete. But I know the pronunciation shown above is correct and may be the "real" way to say it. It may be the modern dictionaries that are wrong, but if you get a dictionary from the 50's or so it should have this pronunciation. Weird I know.

OK- SIM- OR -ON.

'Oksy-moron' sounds ridiculous.

As OP says - Oxi-MORE-on

Stress on 'more', pronounced with a short 'i'. So actually it does sound like 'oksy-moron' - why is that ridiculous? I don't understand how 'ok-sim-or-on' would be any different.

@pepperpot99

You’re wrong. It is 100% definitely oksy-moron.

According to whom, Notcopingwellhere ?

That's my pronunciation. Or perhaps you'd prefer 'pronounciation' ?

According to dictionaries and people who use the word in conversation! Are you that policeman from ‘Allo ‘Allo?

Nope, just someone who is pretty good with the language. Trust me, it's OK-SIMM-OR-ON. You simply cannot trust modern dictionaries - they have words like 'irregardless' in them .

and just to be especially pedantic, surely that ought to be 'Hello Hello'?

You’re not “good with the language”. You are wrong. The OED is hardly a modern dictionary.

Yeah I'm good; calm down though .