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Re: NOT the Queen's English (was re: Lugnet Guide a lot less convenient today)
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Thu, 8 Mar 2001 20:37:05 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Maggie Cambron wrote:

Yes on both counts!  Here's one that was pointed out to me long ago by a Ph.D.
in biology:  "dissect" does NOT rhyme with "bisect".  The "dis-" has the same
short i as in the word "discord".  And this makes sense when you think of the
meaning of the word-- it does NOT mean to cut something into TWO parts (for
that we have the word "bisect"!) but to cut it apart (as in disassemble). The
funny thing is I have since heard plenty of biologists pronounce it with a long
i.

There are people who really pronounce dissect with a short i?  Wow.  I've
never heard it that way.

Steve



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  Re: NOT the Queen's English (was re: Lugnet Guide a lot less convenient today)
 
According to Mirriam Webster (www.m-w.com), it's pronounced either way. Adrian (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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(...) Yes on both counts! Here's one that was pointed out to me long ago by a Ph.D. in biology: "dissect" does NOT rhyme with "bisect". The "dis-" has the same short i as in the word "discord". And this makes sense when you think of the meaning of (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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