I’d say TRY-plex, goes with DU-plex.
I also say kee-lo-metre instead of kil-ohm-etre.
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Trip-lex. As in locomotive:
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Triple X, as in “I have never visited that website.”
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Lo-com-o-tive?
I’d say lo-co-mo-tive.
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I personally kill all the os. Kill o gram kill ometer
Kil o byte
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That’s what I say! I get steamed when people mispronounce it.
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Agreed. After all, we say KIL-o-gram, not kil-OG-ram. I may be in the minority in Canada, but I think KIL-o-metre is the official pronunciation.
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I’m quite chuffed when they get it right.
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Tripleks.
By tryplex, do they mean trwplekh, truplekh, treiplekh, traiplekh, trwpleks, trupleks, treipleks, traipleks, or something else?
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Please, people.
“Kilometre” is pronounced “klick.”
And “kilogram” is pronounced “KEY-lo.” Not “KEY-lo-gram,” just “KEY-lo.”
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As long as you don’t pronounce “centimeter” as “sontimeter” as a lot of physicians do – first syllable as the French would say it, 3rd, 4th, and 5th like Americans say it. That is an a-bo-mi-na-tion.
ETA: Geez, I can’t even count. Make that: first syllable as the French would say it, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th like Americans say it. Oldage does that to you.
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By “TRY-plex,” they mean /ˈtrī.pleks/; by “TRIP-lex”, they mean /ˈtrɪ.pleks/
I think. I’m not very used to using IPA.
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Agreed. You don’t mix the pronunciation of two languages in the same word.
Similarly, “tourniquet” is /ˈtɝ.nɪ.kɪt/, or /tuʁnikɛ/, and never /tɝ.na.ki/.
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So with the -ei- vowel in be, not the -ai- vowel in by?
If we’re at the point you need to use one on me, I am not going to get hung up on how you say it.
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try-plex would be using the “y” in “try” (by, why, sigh, fie), as in “triangle,” where trip-lex would be using the “i” in “trip” (sit, fin, is, risk), as in “triple.”
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No way. I’m waiting for a trained professional.
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The point they’re trying to hammer home about tourniquets now is that if you need one and have to wait for a trained professional, you’re probably already dead.
So they’re trying to train and equip more amateurs.
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What if someone suggested using duck tape?
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Trying to control a severe bleed with something adhesive, which cannot be tightened to apply pressure? Mispronouncing “tourniquet” would suggest to me that the person might not know what they were doing, but trying to tape down a pressure bandage would guarantee in my mind that they don’t.
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