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PIEZO
- Thread starter Whippet
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Actually, it is pronounced - "rather harsh sounding tweeter". Your supposed to say that really fast.I believe it's pronounced "tweeter".
Looks Italian, in which case it's pee-eh-zoh. More so pee-et-zoh.
Cambridge agrees: How to pronounce piezoelectric in English
Cambridge agrees: How to pronounce piezoelectric in English
I've been pronouncing it as pee-eh-zoh all along, so I'm glad to read this note.
No, that's Bozo. As in the clown laughing at his captive audience. All the way to the bank.
on topic: It's Italian and pronounced as such. That aside more people pronounce it incorrectly vs. not. FWIW.
It depends on if you are English or 'Mercan. The UK pronunciation is actually "pee-zoh", where are us in the States would say "pee-eh-zoh". I say "pee-zoh", though I'm Texan because it has less syllables and I'm lazy and "pie-zoh" sound "twangy". Maybe we should compromise and say "pie-eh-zoh".
Words are what they are. Prononciations might suffer because of accents, but there only one correct prononciation and usually anything less is typically due to not knowing or caring, disrespect, or lack of intellect and none of those reflect well.
That's no judgement or opinion, it's just how the world is. No dictionary will state one can say "pie" and be correct.
