They keep pronouncing ideology on my NPR station as eye-dee-ol-oh-gee, and it's annoying the heck out of me.
i pronounce it as id-e-ol-o-gee, but according to both the merriam webster and dictionary.com websites, that's a variant pronunciation, and the preferred pronunciation is ide-oh-low-gee. They remove an entire syllable.
I'm not sure I've ever heard it pronounced with the lowered syllable count, but I've heard it enough times with the "NPR pronunciation" (for lack of a better term) to be really annoyed with Steve Inskeep.
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Show of hands, please. How do you pronounce ideology?
A. The (correct<g>) way with an ID
B. The missing (dictionary) syllable way with an EYE
C. The illiterate (NPR) way with an EYE
And do any of these pronunciations irk you? Best response should win a trip to the Carribean, when we all agree whether it's pronounced been or be un (speaking of missing syllable.)
I am agnostic between A and C (although I probably lean toward the illiterate (I have my excuse of being an Ozark Mountain native.) way).
Agree with EmmettRedd. Choice A preferred, choice C second best. I've always pronounced it as choice A. Never heard choice B in spoken English.
Just checked both Google's "define:ideology" and Merriam-Webster's site, and both give the NPR version as first choice, with yours as second. There's a missing dot in the syllabication at the m-w site, but the pronunciation is four syllables. Both also have the long-I version when you click the speaker icon to actually hear the word spoken.
FWIW, it's properly CARE-a-BEE-un, not cah-RIB-EE-un, just like it's HIM-a-LAY-a, not hi-MAHL-ya.
Ron Draney said
FWIW, it's properly CARE-a-BEE-un, not cah-RIB-EE-un, just like it's HIM-a-LAY-a, not hi-MAHL-ya.
The place where Bob Evans farmed is RYE-oh grand, Ohio not Ree-oh GRAN-day, it's LYE-muh, Ohio, not LEE-muh as Deaer Abby pronounced it, and it's LEW-iss-ville, Ohio, not LEW-ville (where Churchill Downs is, or Lew-wee-ville as people who don't know any better pronounce it).
Every time they get a new newsreader on Fort Wayne television, we all wonder whether he'll report happenings at Lake Wuh-WASS-ee, instead of the proper Wah-wah-SEE. (Spelled Wawasee.) We also get newbees reporting on Oh-wuh-bah-che state park, which is spelled Ouabache State Park, but pronounced "Wabash", like the Cannonball. Locally, we're split about 50/50 over Nissan's old name. Was it Dot-sun, or DAT-zun? There are a few who think it's become Niss'n, but most people say Knee-sahn. And although Steuben County is fairly local, some people say Stew-BEN, and others say STEW-bin. But everybody agrees on Kosciusko, Wapakoneta and Kekionga.
The very first professional baseball game was between the Fort Wayne Kekiongas, and the Cleveland Green Forest. Fort Wayne, the hone team, won the game,but didn't last out the first season of the NL; they were sold to a guy who moved them to Brooklyn, where they were the Superbas. The players, most of them ended up on a team called the Trolley-dodgers, and eventually moved to Los Angeles. Kikionga was the name of the indian village at the confluence of the St Mary's and St Joe became the Maumee, which is where General Anthony Wayne threw up a fort he named after himself.Â