RE: spoon-discuss: Is Nomic one syllable?

["Jonathan Van Matre" <JVanMatre@xxxxxxxx>]

Any way you slice it, it's a two syllable word.  The stress also falls on the first syllable, whether you pronounce it with a short 'o' or a long 'o'.  So, as far as the haiku bonus is concerned, the pronunciation doesn't matter, unless you're planning to read your haiku rule proposal aloud at a coffeehouse open mike night.  :)

As for the pronunciation of the word, see http://www.nomic.net/FAQ.html#a3 for discussion of the debated pronunciations, and Suber's own take on the matter.

--Scoff!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Antonio [mailto:zagarna@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 10:21 AM
> To: spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: spoon-discuss: Is Nomic one syllable?
> 
> 
> Now that we have the haiku bonus I need to know this:
> how do you pronounce nomic?
> is it nomic as in echo-NOMIC
> or nomic like in NO-MIC-rophone?
> 
> in other words does tha accent fall on the o or on th i ?
> and is it a one or two syllable word?
> -- 
> Antonio
> 
> 
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