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Posted by Ramdac99 (Member # 7264) on :

Much like the Salmon question from the other side:

How do you guys pronounce Hegemon?

Posted by delusional1 (Member # 7896) on :

hedge-mun

Posted by Ramdac99 (Member # 7264) on :

I always figured it was:
Hedge-mon

Posted by Belgarath (Member # 4) on :

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]

Posted by aiua (Member # 7825) on :

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.

Posted by Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged (Member # 7476) on :

from dictionary.com

quote:
heg·e·mon

Posted by Ramdac99 (Member # 7264) on :

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 ]

Posted by dawnmaria (Member # 4142) on :

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

I also hear the "ah"!

Posted by Jasmine (Member # 7370) on :

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

Posted by lonelywalker (Member # 7815) on :

HEH-ge-mon.

But...

heh-GE-mony.

Go figure.

Posted by Frangy. (Member # 6794) on :

Ejemon, like we pronounce in Spain

Posted by Beanny (Member # 7109) on :

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

Posted by Mr_Megalomaniac (Member # 7695) on :

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

Posted by CRash (Member # 7754) on :

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.

Posted by BandoCommando (Member # 7746) on :

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 ]

Posted by Orson Scott Card (Member # 209) on :

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>.

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Like so.

Posted by genius00345 (Member # 8206) on :

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.

Posted by Soara (Member # 6729) on :

quote:
Ejemon, like we pronounce in Spain

what would we do without spanish?