On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 3:32 AM, Tim Stoffel <tim@lionlamb.us> wrote:
Maybe its a regional dialect thing. Everyone here pronounces 'wiki' like it rhhymes with 'mickey'.
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. 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. 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 -- ghunchu'wI'