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I've always pronounced it /ju's@rp@r/. AFAIK that's correct. It's usually given as the gloss of my first name, James (ya`akobh, Jacob), but that's probably a folk etymology.
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Thanks for the welcome and thank you all for your replies. From what I have read recently primer/dimmer is possibly the first pronunciation as in prima ballerina. Does anyone know the pronunciation of the latin primarius? I have e-mailed the Anglicans to see if they can help but I have had no reply yet. I'm going to try the Catholics next. Of course, I'm not sure if I should get involved with cults.
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for prima I would pronounce that preema, and the same(especially if I was singing it) for primarius, "pree- mahr-ee-oos", though something tells me I might say it, prie(like pie, long i)-mare-ee-uhs. one of them latin scholars will give us the definitive answer... I'm just a singer...
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Yep, like etaoin said. Of course I'm just an amateur singer... and a very basic student of Latin.
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Primarius, with the first i and a being long and the other vowels short. A long i in Latin would've been pronounced like the {ee} in feet. The accent would be antepenultimate, as the two singers have suggested, with the stress on {mar}. This would hold for (the reconstructed) Classical Latin and Ecclesiastical (Italian) pronunciations.
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Glass does flow downhill, at least just a little bit. If you take glass tubing as is used in a chemistry lab and lie it down horizontal with supports only at the ends, after a month or so there will be a slight but distinct bow to the glass.
And many of the windows in my house are visually rippled, with more of the ripples toward the bottom, BTW, a glazier has told me that this rippled glass now sells vor at least $0.10 per square inch, with larger panes going for five and six times that much. People who want ultra authenticity in their renovations can get pretty crazy.
My front entryway has a lot of this, but the most interesting feature to the door is that it is not only not square it appears to have been made that way. When I first looked at it I realized it wasn't square and figured it had sagged. But upon closer inspection all nine pieces of glass, including the large central section, which is about 60 inches by 13, are skewed by about three degrees from square. Which makes them hmmm trapezoids? Actually, now that I think about it, it's more likely that the door sagged, caused the glass to break, and someone replaced the square glass with panes that were cut to fit. None of the sections of glass in the door itself are antique (and also none of them are safety glass, which means I should replace them with little kids around.)
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None of the sections of glass in the door itself are antique (and also none of them are safety glass, which means I should replace them with little kids around.)"
... and potential burglars.
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As my dear ol' Dad was fond of saying : "Any dam fool can tie a knot in glass but it takes a master to untie it."
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