It only takes a minute to sign up. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. However, I still hear everyone pronounce it as "Encyclo pee dia", when their spelling suggests more along the lines of "Encyclo pah dia" or "encyclo pay dia".
The wikipedia page makes it clear that they should be pronounced with another sound along the lines of ah or eh Given the name "Aion" as a recent videogame, and the common pronunciation of a CS mailer-daemon as "Daymon", clearly others behave the same way.
You have to distinguish English vowels from English orthography. There are between twelve and fifteen distinct vowels in English , depending on your dialect, but there are only 5 vowel letters in the orthography. This causes no end of problems. Mostly we now spell that vowel with the letter a , because of the Great Vowel Shift.
English orthography is rule based Sometimes it uses a regular literal one-to-one pronunciation, at oher times the spelling got stuck centuries ago but sounds changes occurred in speech, and sometimes, the word is written as from the foreign language it was borrowed from but the impossible or unlikely pronunciation is adapted to English mouths and ears.
It comes almost always from a borrowing from Latin. Encyclodpeeedia, alumneee for many female 'alumnae'. Note that many of these spellings are now variants and the more common spelling removes the strange looking 'a'.
In English text, the letter is used as a slightly old-fashioned form of the Latin digraph ae also in Latin-mediated Greek words and in some names from Danish, Norwegian, Old English and a few other languages that use the letter natively.
For Latin loanwords in ordinary English text, it's essentially equivalent to the letter "e" so always "encyclopEEdia", "julius cEEsar" but in the study of Latin language and culture it's common to pronounce names and terms in ways more similar to how the original speakers did. In Danish etc. To find out how a word is pronounced, you can look in a dictionary. To find out how a word "should" be pronounced, you have to decide what you mean by that, and then look up whatever information you think is relevant e.
For example, the spelling demon, which is usual in both American English and British English when writing about evil spirits or supernatural entities, comes from a spelling variant of Latin daemon. On the other hand, one word where ae is still common in both British English and American English is aesthetic s.
This pronunciation tends to occur in "closed" syllables a closed syllable is a syllable that ends in a consonant or in stressed syllables that are followed by at least two other syllables. In Latin, not all instances of the sequence ae were examples of the ae digraph. Occasionally, a followed by e in Latin just represented an "a" sound followed by an "e" sound, pronounced "in hiatus"; that is, in separate syllables for example, in the Latin words aeneus adj. But related word in modern English may have developed pronunciations without hiatus, perhaps in part because of the ambiguous spellings or analogy with related words that are pronounced without a hiatus: e.
The Latin ae digraph replaced an ai digraph that was used in Old Latin. Scholars think that the sound was pronounced as a diphthong [ai] in the Old Latin stage. So in the modern English spelling of recent borrowings from or coinages based on Ancient Greek, we see variation between ae and ai compare similar variation between oe and oi , y and u, u and ou, c and k. Part of the variability in the pronunciation of ae in modern English may also be based on the efforts of classical scholars.
A number of speakers now use these "restored" qualities in certain contexts in English words that come from Latin. The origins of this are not entirely clear to me. In most cases, "ae" or "oe" will result in a long or short "e" sound. These spellings originated in Greek and found their way into English. Many of them have changed as spelling is "reformed," but others have not.
As for "daemon" -- despite what you will hear from some computer people, it is pronounced "demon" -- and despite what you will hear from some others, they are really only variant spellings. The older spelling "daemon" came to be used in the computer sense, similar to when the "compact disc" was introduced to an international English-speaking audience, the original "disc" was used, even though the spelling of "disc" had mostly been reformed to "disk" by that time.
This resulted in the current situation in which "compact disc" and "hard disk" are spelled differently. When "ae" is used at the end of a Latin word, it is technically pronounced "eye. Encyclopaedia is a Greek work. It is a compound word and it has three morphemes: en - cyclo - paedia, meaning in - cycle - education general education. Mark US English.
Daniel British. Libby British. Mia British. Karen Australian. Hayley Australian. Natasha Australian. Veena Indian. Priya Indian. Neerja Indian. Zira US English. Oliver British. Wendy British. Fred US English. A letter , which looks like Modern English "p," called "wynn" which comes from a rune by that name is pronounced like Modern English "w. Although yogh and wynn are found in Old English manuscripts, modern editors replace them with their Modern English equivalents, while they leave thorn , eth , and ash in place.
The reasons for this inconsistency are bound up in the early history of Anglo-Saxon studies and the preferences of the editors who made the first print editions. If you decide to learn about paleography , the study of ancient writing, or work directly with Anglo-Saxon manuscripts or facsimiles , you will have to learn to recognize "yogh," "wynn" and also special forms of the letters "s," "r," and "f.
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