<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 3:32 AM, Tim Stoffel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tim@lionlamb.us" target="_blank">tim@lionlamb.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Maybe its a regional dialect thing. Everyone here pronounces 'wiki'<br>
like it rhhymes with 'mickey'.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It's more like a *lack of regional dialect* thing. Those who know the language it is derived from are relatively few, compared to those who have read the Internet term.<br><br>When I'm talking about the pseudo-markup for quick editing of web pages, I generally pronounce "wiki" with a first vowel kind of between the "i" in "bit" and the "ee" in "beet". It's sort of a compromise between the Hawaiian origin and the Anglicized rendition. But if I'm invoking the reduplicated "wikiwiki" for "really quick", I generally pronounce it with all "ee" sounds. As with the obvious cognates "caffeine" and {qa'vIn}, I don't feel the need to slavishly maintain the pronunciation from one language when I'm using the word in another.<br><br>But if you insist that it *has* to be "weekee" because of its etymology, you should also be pronouncing "encyclopedia" with a hard "k" sound because of its Greek origin. :-P<br><br>-- ghunchu'wI'</div></div></div></div>