How to pronounce duplicacy?

[Christoph]

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:

Some thoughts to the WebUI

In my mind, the - acy is pronounced as in privacy . So that would put the emphasis on the syllable pli in duplicacy, but in some versions of English perhaps it’s also possible to ephasize the du . I’m not a native speaker…

Then Gilbert replied:

Some thoughts to the WebUI

I’m not a native speaker either, so I really don’t know which syllable should be stressed. Maybe someone here can recommend an official pronunciation?

[vitor.dasilva.79]

This is how it sounded in my head (Note: I’m English speaking Australian)

1. Go to following site Free Text to Speech Online with Natural Voices
2. Type in “Duplicacy” into text box area
3. Select “English (UK) - Rachel”
4. Select “Speed -2”
5. Press play

Spend the next 2 hours testing different voices and wasting your time!

[IanW]

…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).

[saspus]

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.

[Arty.R]

I am not English speaking, and in my view, this word (“duplicacy”) seems Italian))

[lphelan]

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.

[C11]

Gotta ask… I noticed my wife and I both say this differently.
Do we say:

1. doo - plick - AH - see

2. doo- plah - CAH - see

3. doo- PLIH - cah - see

4. other?

[towerbr]

Take a look:

How to pronounce duplicacy?

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: In my mind, the - acy is pronounced as in privacy . So that would put the emphasis on the syllable pli in duplicacy, but in some versions of English perhaps it’s also possible to ephasize the du . I’m not a native speaker… [/quote] Then Gilbert replied:

[C11]

That’s great! I think we need a poll.

[Christoph]

No poll is needed:

How to pronounce duplicacy?

it follows, fairly unambigously, that “duplicacy” should be pronounced “d(j)uˈplɪkəsi”

How to pronounce duplicacy?

Duplicacy to be spoken as “d(j)uˈplɪkəsi"; that is, with the emphasis on pli .

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[C11]

Sadly, I cannot read the phonetics…

[Christoph]

But you know how the words left of the phonetics are pronounced?

How to pronounce duplicacy?

“duplicate” -> “d(j)upləˌkeɪt”
“duplicity” -> “d(j)uˈplɪsədi”
“duplication” -> “ˌd(j)upləˈkeɪʃ(ə)n”
“efficacy” -> “E ˈɛfəkəsi”
“advocacy” -> “ædvəkəsi”
“intricacy” -> "ˈɪntrəkəsi "

[C11]

This apparently means my wife was correct…

Doo-PLIH-cah-see