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Ramdac99
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Much like the Salmon question from the other side:

How do you guys pronounce Hegemon?

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delusional1
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hedge-mun

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Ramdac99
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I always figured it was:
Hedge-mon

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Belgarath
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when i read it, it keeps sounding like.

Hedge-ah-mon

I don't know why my brain keeps adding an a sound betwwen the second E and the M.
maybe its from watching all those digimon cartoons.

[Laugh]

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aiua
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Wow. I just figured out that [Dont Know]

is a guy shrugging. I always thought it was somebody lifting weights and so was confused when somebody used it...Makes sense now.
Sorry for that unnecessary bit of randomness.

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Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged
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Email Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged

from dictionary.com

quote:
heg·e·mon

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Ramdac99
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wow, it's a real word? [Eek!]

and aiua, randomness is the spice of life. [Big Grin]

[ April 29, 2005, 09:58 PM: Message edited by: Ramdac99 ]

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dawnmaria
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Wow! Belgarath! #4! I thought you were a myth! Glad to see you! [The Wave]

I also hear the "ah"!

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Jasmine
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i used to pronounce it heg-a-mon, but then alot of my friends pronounced it hedge-mon, and then OSC pronouced it hedge-mon at the Boston signing, so i went with it. hehe

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lonelywalker
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HEH-ge-mon.

But...

heh-GE-mony.

Go figure.

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Frangy.
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Ejemon, like we pronounce in Spain

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Beanny
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He-Ge-Mon. In Hebrew, though, you say "Heg-Mon"

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Mr_Megalomaniac
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Horray, I'm not the only one who pronounced it Hedge-ah-mon.

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CRash
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I could always pronounce "hegemon" without a hitch but always had problems with "hegemony" because my debate teachers insisted it was "heh-GEM-uh-nee" when my mind kept saying, "hedguh-MOAN-ee". Drives me crazy. Webster's lists both pronunciations as correct, so I fear I'll never reach a conclusion personally as to its accurate pronunciation.

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BandoCommando
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I use more of a "shz" sound for the G. Or maybe a "zhe" sound is more appropriate. Somewhere between the "J" sound and "Z" anyway.

"HESHZ e mon"

And

"he SHZE mon ee"

/shrug

[ May 02, 2005, 12:26 PM: Message edited by: BandoCommando ]

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Orson Scott Card
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I don't try to pronounce it in Greek. By analogy with the word hegemony, which is pronounced heh-JEM-uh-nee, I pronounced the new ENGLISH word hegemon HEJ-uh-mon. How the Greeks did it or do it is entirely up to them <grin>.

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rivka
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Like so.

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genius00345
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I always thought it was HEG-uh-mon
(rhymes with "egg 'em on").

And HEG-uh-mony
(like "egg a Mony"--mony being the name from that Tommy James and the Shondelles hit)

Although, he-JEM-uh-nee has quite a ring to it.

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Soara
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quote:
Ejemon, like we pronounce in Spain

what would we do without spanish?

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