I was wondering what’s the correct pronunciation of “duplicacy” and since this off-topic question triggered some answers, I guess it’s time to move those into a topic of their own.
So here we go. This was my suggestion:
Then Gilbert replied:
I was wondering what’s the correct pronunciation of “duplicacy” and since this off-topic question triggered some answers, I guess it’s time to move those into a topic of their own.
So here we go. This was my suggestion:
Then Gilbert replied:
This is how it sounded in my head (Note: I’m English speaking Australian)
Spend the next 2 hours testing different voices and wasting your time!
…that is, with a light stress on the “dup”.
That’s how I was pronouncing it in my head too (FWIW I’m a native UK English speaker).
Interesting.
Looking at these pronunciations in American English:
“duplicate” -> “d(j)upləˌkeɪt”
“duplicity” -> “d(j)uˈplɪsədi”
“duplication” -> “ˌd(j)upləˈkeɪʃ(ə)n”
“efficacy” -> “E ˈɛfəkəsi”
“advocacy” -> “ædvəkəsi”
“intricacy” -> "ˈɪntrəkəsi "
it follows, fairly unambigously, that “duplicacy” should be pronounced “d(j)uˈplɪkəsi” doesn’t it?
FWIF macOS text-to-speech voice Alex pronounces it just like that.
I am not English speaking, and in my view, this word (“duplicacy”) seems Italian))
I agree with @saspus that
“duplicity” -> “d(j)uˈplɪsədi”
requires Duplicacy to be spoken as “d(j)uˈplɪkəsi"; that is, with the emphasis on pli. Duplicity
has a structure very similar to Duplicacy; in fact it’s the most similar word in @saspus’s list with only two consecutive letters near the end changed.
Perhaps it is fortunate that we seldom need to speak Duplicacy out loud.
I am a native American English speaker, since about 1956.
Gotta ask… I noticed my wife and I both say this differently.
Do we say:
doo - plick - AH - see
doo- plah - CAH - see
doo- PLIH - cah - see
other?
Take a look:
That’s great! I think we need a poll.
No poll is needed:
.
Sadly, I cannot read the phonetics…
But you know how the words left of the phonetics are pronounced?
This apparently means my wife was correct…
Doo-PLIH-cah-see