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Dale, if you would edit your post (#185940) to delete the end of the link so that you leave only http://wordsmith.org/board/ubbthreads.php/topics/185767, it will still take us to the page but will also reduce this thread so it's not w-i-d-e any more. I hope. Thanks.
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I'd like to hear more if you don't mind.It's been just over thirty years since I read parts of it for a classics class in college, but I found an English translation online at Gutenberg ( link). If you want we can both read it and discuss.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Schoolbooks are often wrong. I've always heard it as ROW BOT' or less often as ROW' BUTT.
Recently I heard an audio file on the onion website in which the word was consistently pronounced ROE BIT. The OED has only ({sm}r{schwa}{shtu}b{rfa}t) and no mention of an alternate pronunciation with a silent t. Nor does Merriam-Webster and googling for 'robot pronunciation silent t' turns up only this thread as mentioning the existence of such a variant.
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The OED has only ({sm}r{schwa}{shtu}b{rfa}t) I got just one question: Huh?
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The OED has only ({sm}r{schwa}{shtu}b{rfa}t) I got just one question: Huh? sorry. I copied and pasted the pronunciation entry and that was how it came out. It lookes like this: 
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If you want we can both read it and discuss.
Ta! I'll let you know when I've finished.
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I'd like to hear more too! Love Sci Fi.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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aside, re: sf.. scifi.. skiffy.. scientifiction
what do you make of the scifi channel changing their logo to SYFY?
8-P
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And just because I've always wondered: I know a "tesseract" is a "real" thing, but does anybody "get it"? It's so weird!  
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I HATE IT!!!! It looks like "siffy" to me. YUK!!!!
Sifffy. Hmm. I like it. It rolls right off the tongue into the mud puddle below. Syfy on the other hand I would pronounce as ßűḟů.
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