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Generally I vary between "ar-TIFF-i-sir" or "ARR-ti-fi-sir", but honestly?
Tomato, tomato.
Tomato, tomato.
The dictionary is usually based on usage, so you can generally be certain that even if you’ve never heard the dictionary pronunciation, other people very much have.Exactly like "artifice" but with an "er" at the end, which is exactly how it's spelled.
Yes, I know there's another pronunciation in the dictionary. The dictionary is wrong. Usage trumps the dictionary, and I've never heard anyone pronounce it any differently.
It's rare to have three unstressed syllables in a row. It's why we have SAX-a-phone but sax-OPH-on-ist (and Homer Simpson's SAX-a-ma-PHONE)Except there is nothing odd at all about ART-if-is-er.
Okay.It's rare to have three unstressed syllables in a row. It's why we have SAX-a-phone but sax-OPH-on-ist (and Homer Simpson's SAX-a-ma-PHONE)
Yes! (though technically the stress is measured from the end, which is why all of them have it on the antepenult, the third from last.)For me, emphasis on the second syllable... ar-TIFF-i-cer. The same way the emphasis is on the second syllable in 'pho-TOG-gra-fir' (photographer) 'or 'gee-ALL-o-gist' (geologist).
Most four syllable words of this sort-- occupations or the people who perform those occupations-- always seem to put the rising emphasis on the second syllable:
Biographer
Geometry
Psychology
Optometrist
Etcetera
If it's three syllables then it falls on the first (CHEM-istry, DENT-istry) and five syllables falls on the first & third (OPH-thal-MOL-o-gist, AR-chae-OL-o-gy).
I only wish I could measure my stress from when it ended, rather from when it began.Yes! (though technically the stress is measured from the end, which is why all of them have it on the antepenult, the third from last.)
In this case the dictionary, however, is likely based on historic usage of a now archaic term, rather then on actual current usage by people who have appropriated that archaic term for a roleplaying game.The dictionary is usually based on usage, so you can generally be certain that even if you’ve never heard the dictionary pronunciation, other people very much have.