[Magdalen] prophecy/prophesy

Roger Stokes roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
Sun Jun 4 21:05:07 UTC 2017


This Englishman agrees with Mike - you need the final uh sound. In 
England the normal pronunciation is eye-zeye-uh.

Roger

On 04/06/2017 20:47, M J _Mike_ Logsdon wrote:
>>>> A parishioner of English origin pronounces Isaiah to rhyme with prophesy.<<<
> Okay, I'm ignorant.
>
> Just how in the hell can those words possibly be pronounced to rhyme?
>
> I know of two pronunciations for Isaiah and one for prophesy.
>
> Neither "eye-zay-uh" nor "eye-zeye[as in "eye"]-uh" remotely match up with "prah-fuh-seye[as in "eye"]".
>



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