Pliny Pronounciation

Ply-knee
Hope you get to try Hopfather.

 

I've heard both "Ply-knee" and "Plea-knee." I think "Ply-knee" is the accepted pronunciation of the beer, but the latter is not incorrect.

 

Ply-knee. End of story. Have a good time.

 

Ply-knee for the beer, Pli-knee for the historical figure (pronouncing the "i" as you do in "is" for the latter).

 

Pliny, comes from Plinius, which should be pronounced "pleen-use" (or plea-nuse) in my opinion, although for the beer I always say "ply-knee"

 

The large fellow at a brewpub you say? Will you be wearing a beer t-shirt and have a beard as well?

 

Is your avatar a selfie?

 

Huh? The historical figure's name is pronounced "pli-knee-us." The anglicization just drops the -us vowel.

And not to be a total stickler, but the word is pronunciation, not pronounciation.

 

I guess the pronounciation would be He or Him, or for the beer, It

 

The word is indeed "pronunciation", but pronunciation is the way in which a word is pronounced.

Oh and I meant the actual latin pronunciation, which that name originated from.

 

Are you saying that the Latin pronunciation of Plinius is plean (rhyming with "clean") as the first vowel, followed by use (as in the verb "to use")?

Oh and the word pronunciation comes from the Latin word nuntio. it was the English verb that had the vowel shift, not the noun.

 

This is the closest I found: https://www.howtopronounce.com/gaius-plinius-caecilius-secundus/ first one from the top.

 

The pronunciation which I gave in my first response is the proper Latin pronunciation.

 

Thats not a great pronunciation (for instance the soft c), but it suffices. iu is not a dipthong in Latin, thus Plinius breaks down into three vowels: Pli-ni-us. The first i is short, the second is long (like an e sound).

 

Time. You all have too much of it. As do I, reading all this.

 

3+ years of graduate level Latin has to get me something. Even if its just bickering on the internet on a sick day.

 

I agree. The "secundus" is all wrong in there, but I just couldn't find a better one. Anyway, I may not understand something, but I can't see how your version: pli-knee-us is the same as on the link I posted (regarding the first vowel). I always though that phonetic "i" is pronounced exactly the same as the word "I" or as in "mine"?