[Magdalen] prophecy/prophesy

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

Actually, it's

yiss rah EL

Hebrew seems to prefer to accent the last syllable.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
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On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 11:37 AM, Simon Kershaw <simon at kershaw.org.uk> wrote:

> Anyone here who tried to say "eye-zay-uh" would be assumed to be
> mispronouncing the word and would be likely corrected afterwards. I don't
> think I have ever heard Isaiah pronounced that way. "eyes-eye-uh" is the
> only pronunciation known to me.
>
> As for "Israel", I guess I'm a bit pedantic on this. The name of the
> modern country is usually pronounced (in this country anyway) as two
> syllables: "iz-rayl". I was brought up when singing canticles as a young
> choirboy to sing "iz-rah-ell", and I still do on the rare occasions that I
> get to sing the Nunc Dimittis, for example. In a religious context,
> referring to ancient Israel, I think there is real merit in a
> three-syllable pronunciation isra-el "iz-ray-ell". The final syllable "el"
> is the most important part of the word, and to swallow it is to miss the
> point that it's something to do with El, God.
>
> But we too had "prophesy" pronounced as "prophecy" yesterday.
>
> simon
>
>
> Scott Knitter wrote:
> > Some of our (American) lectors insist on eye-zeye-uh as well. I stick
> > with eye-zay-uh.
> >
> > A couple of lectors also insist on pronouncing some OT names in a very
> > Hebrew-sounding way, like EESS-rah-ayl for Israel. I'm one who thinks
> > it's fine to pronounce these names in an Anglicized way...German
> > lectors would do similarly, applying German pronunciations and not
> > trying to sound like they're using authentic Hebrew pronunciation.
> > Besides, these same fussy lectors wouldn't say "yer-em-me-YAH-hoo" for
> > Jeremiah nor pronounce Moses in a Hebrew way, so why not just stick
> > with Anglicized pronunciations? Self-pronouncing KJV Bibles are a lot
> > of help here, and we've got a good little paperback pronunciation
> > guide in our sacristy.
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 4, 2017 at 4:05 PM, Roger Stokes
> > <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com> wrote:
> >> This Englishman agrees with Mike - you need the final uh sound. In
> >> England
> >> the normal pronunciation is eye-zeye-uh.
> >
> > --
> > Scott R. Knitter
> > Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
> >
>
>
> --
> Simon Kershaw
> simon at kershaw.org.uk
> Saint Ives, Cambridgeshire
>
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