| 词组 | zoology |
| 释义 | zoology The traditional and recommended pronunciation of this word is \\\\zō-'äl-ǝ-jē\\\\. Gowers in Fowler 1965 calls \\\\zü-'äl-ə-je\\\\ a "very common vulgarism," due probably to the influence of zoo. Another possible reason for the rise of this variant is the fact that, in relaxed speech, the first pronunciation tends to come out as \\\\zə-'wäl-ə-jē\\\\, which could easily be apprehended as a reduced or relaxed form of \\\\zü-'äl-ə-jē\\\\ (A similar interplay between stressed and unstressed versions of a single word led historically to the differentiation of of and off.) An analogous state of affairs obtains for zoological: traditionally \\\\,zō-ǝ-'läj-i-kǝl\\\\, now also \\\\,zü-ǝ-,läj-i-kǝl\\\\. Condemnation of the newer variant is sociolinguisti-cally problematic, since the people to whom one might be inclined to allow the last word, namely zoologists themselves, not uncommonly use the \\\\zü-\\\\ version. We even find the traditional disyllabic \\\\,zö-ǝ-\\\\ being reduced in the speech of scientists to a monosyllabic \\\\,zü-\\\\. Our pronunciation files show these bargain-basement variants for a couple of fifty-dollar words: zoonoses pronounced \\\\zü-'nō-sēz\\\\ by a university veterinarian, and zooxanthellae turned to \\\\zü-zan-'thel-ē\\\\ in the mouth of a biologist. |
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