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From: Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at>
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Subject: Re: pronunciation of "ArithmeticException"
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Stefan Ram <ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>   The noun is pronounced »a'rithmetic«.
Iirc, the English noun ends in -cs: arithmetics.

Btw., In Greek language, probably the etymological root of
the terms, both the adjective (arithmitik'os) and the noun
(arithmitik'i) have their "tonos"(stress) on last syllable.

A variant of the word with stress on "rith" (ar'ithmitos)
actually means uncountable/uncalculatable, so the Greek
roots probably won't help much for English stressing rules. ;-)