How Do You Pronounce CONTROVERSY ?

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How Do You Pronounce CONTROVERSY?

ConTREversy
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ConROVersy
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How Do You Pronounce CONTROVERSY ?

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With the emphasise on ERvsy, ControVERsY

or Oversey, ConTROVERSY ?
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... unless you read the news for the BBC, ITV....etc etc...
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J.R. wrote:With the emphasise on ERvsy, ControVERsY

or Oversey, ConTROVERSY ?
My preference is conTROVersy
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Mid A 15 wrote:
J.R. wrote:With the emphasise on ERvsy, ControVERsY

or Oversey, ConTROVERSY ?
My preference is conTROVersy
and mine too - which is correct?
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AS a matter of interest, does anyone know if there is any other language where the same set of letters can be pronounced in many different ways?

cough, bough, through, though, hiccough, etc..
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Well, I only asked !!
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Great Plum wrote:
Mid A 15 wrote:
J.R. wrote:With the emphasise on ERvsy, ControVERsY

or Oversey, ConTROVERSY ?
My preference is conTROVersy
and mine too - which is correct?
Agree once again, Great Plum, this is getting too much! It must be our upbringing - oh no that applies to most members of this forum!
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Katharine wrote:
Great Plum wrote:
Mid A 15 wrote: My preference is conTROVersy
and mine too - which is correct?
Agree once again, Great Plum, this is getting too much! It must be our upbringing - oh no that applies to most members of this forum!
Well if you must agree with someone, it might as well be me! :wink:
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Great Plum wrote:
Katharine wrote:
Great Plum wrote: and mine too - which is correct?
Agree once again, Great Plum, this is getting too much! It must be our upbringing - oh no that applies to most members of this forum!
Well if you must agree with someone, it might as well be me! :wink:
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No, not very...
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OK - here is the definitive ruling! The mis-pronounciation of this word has bugged me since I learned the correct way at CH. You have to remember that this is a compound word from the Latin - contra=against: versa=something to do with words (I am a bit rusty on my declensions so I can't quite remember how, if at all, it derives from verbum!!).

Now, with that little thought in mind, pronounce it so - contra-versy. I know that the spelling has been Anglicised a bit but never mind. Try some others:
(for we musicians) Contrapuntal - try putting the stress on the "trap" and you would sound idiotic, so too with "controversy". "Con-TROV-ersy" is ridiculous!, or
Contradiction - con-TRAD-iction????? Yuk!

As for schedule - it is of course soft unless you have been corrupted by our transatlantic cousins who always get everything wrong.

PS the BBC, however, still tries to get it right among its better readers. Well done Auntie!

PPS I haven't voted as neither option is correct - the stress should be as if two separate words as I have indicated above
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DavebytheSea wrote:You have to remember that this is a compound word from the Latin - contra=against: versa=something to do with words (I am a bit rusty on my declensions so I can't quite remember how, if at all, it derives from verbum!!).
Dave, I think the second part of the word derives from the verb vertere (to turn).

Versus (-a, -um) is the past participle, so means 'turned'.
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Only on a CH forum!!!
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Well, there you go!

We can conjugate verbs and talk about / look at Fiona Bruce pretty much at the same time.

Good, isn't it? :D
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