POLL: How to pronounce Genealogy?

[Mizelar]

I can see that some of you are not keeping your eyes on the ball...  getting a bit distracted from our raison d'etre, are we? 

Impatiens and Clematis...  I think some of us are busy planting our hanging baskets, instead of attending to our trees!   

[nickgc]

Interesting (forgive me if someone mentioned this - I didn't read all posts).  I have never, ever, never heard anyone pronounce it with the "a" sound.  Only as "ology" as in psychology, sociology, etc.  When I clicked on this I thought the question was going to be on the pronunciation of the first syllable, where I have heard discrepant choices.  Most people I know pronounce it "jean" (long e), but a not insignificant number of people pronounce it "jen" (short e). 

Nick

OK, now I feel silly since I see that this thread has been resurrected from the moribund and is over 6 years old!   PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE add a date to original poster column so we can tell when this happens.

[genjan1953]

Ok yes this is an ancient thread but it means that we relative newbies, who didn't know of RC way back in the olden days of 2004, get the chance to comment on it now.  I do agree with you, Nick, though about adding a date to the original poster column.  It's too easy to post a reply to a discussion started many moons ago (could be embarassing!).

For what it's worth, I pronounce it "Jean-E-Allergy".  If it were spelt "Geneology" I would pronounce it "Jean-E-Ollergy".  Psychology, sociology, biology and all the "ologies" have got "o"s in them, that's why they are pronounced like that! But Genealogy has an 'A' in it.  Oh gawd, enough said 

PS I'm from Norf Lundun.

[Springbok]

For me

Jean--E-Al-O- Gee


Spring

[Jed59]

Well..  I would have thought,if i'd never come across the word before...that "its something to do with genes...ie the inherited bits of us that make us who we are.
So "Jean" ,  then it has an "e" so Jeenee . Then it has "alogy"
I regularly throw  heavy objects at the TV when they mispronounce words.,specially the BBC......luckily I'm a rotten shot !

Good Hunting
Jed (nb not pronounced Jeed  lol)

[Mizelar]

Jed:

I agree with you about the BBC - extremely disappointing, in recent years.  Must admit, my TV is very vu[l]nerable when I hear people praising (h)aitch D television! 

[genjan1953]

Well said Jed59 and Mizelar, I'm in your camp on this.  I, too, have a thing about correct pronunciation and English grammar.  Puts me in mind of a Ronnie Barker sketch way back, found it on YouTube.  Here's the link to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ0nFQgRApY

Still makes me laugh now  (or should that be "continues to make me laugh now"? 

[Mizelar]

What really infuriates, and saddens, me is the recent habit of most people, who say "Me and X are going..."

Not only is this incorrect grammar, but it demonstrates how self-centred people have become! 

[Neil Todd]

Now I haven't read all the posts on this thread as some are older than me but I know what the word is referring to and the person who originally came up with the word was a medical doctor. It cannot however be found on "WIKI" or "Googled" up as the true meaning like our lives have been lost to the mists of time. Somewhere in the 5th century a doctor in Greece by the name of "Gettapotatea" came across a mysterious illness aflicting a wide cross section of his patients. Gettapotatea wrote the "Lancet" asking for advice. Their reply to him was to put up the symptoms and they would consult with one another on an appropriate Taxonomic name. The very worst patient was chosen for the symptoms and his name was very appropriatly used for the name of the condition. He went under the name of... Gene E Allergist