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Re: pronunciation of "ArithmeticException"

From Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: pronunciation of "ArithmeticException"
Date 2017-02-16 20:28 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> wrote:
> On 2/16/2017 1:31 PM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
>> Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> wrote:
>>> Stefan Ram <ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>>>>   The noun is pronounced »a'rithmetic«.
>>> Iirc, the English noun ends in -cs: arithmetics.
>> Apparently, I seem to have generalized the "-ics" ending from
>> Mathematics onto other words with similar (Greek) etymology.
>> Thanks for pointing out, that "Arithmetic" doesn't usually
>> have this trailing "s". I live and learn.
>      Were it not for your anemic constitution and choleric
> disposition, someone would surely award you a bishopric in
> recognitoin [sic] of your study of Attic languages.

That's actually not all Greek to me: at least teh [sic] is Latin.

After a quick update on linguistics, ethics, politics, tactics and 
physics, it still sounds (<- acoustics!) to me like that - based also
on certain made-up statistics - it would take some rather advanced
pharmaceutics (not affordable considering economics) to fully convince
me of "arithmetic" following a pattern rather than being one of a few
exceptions.

As http://www.dictionary.com/browse/-ics points it out, the reason
for arithmetic and logic not following the common pattern should be
rather attributed to "hysterical raisins" than anything else.

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Re: pronunciation of "ArithmeticException" Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2017-02-15 12:58 +0000
  Re: pronunciation of "ArithmeticException" Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-02-15 10:01 -0500
    Re: pronunciation of "ArithmeticException" Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-02-15 07:14 -0800
      Re: pronunciation of "ArithmeticException" Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-02-15 13:00 -0500
        Re: pronunciation of "ArithmeticException" Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-02-15 10:28 -0800
          Re: pronunciation of "ArithmeticException" Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-02-15 16:05 -0500
            Re: pronunciation of "ArithmeticException" Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-02-15 13:54 -0800
              Re: pronunciation of "ArithmeticException" Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-02-15 22:51 -0500
                Re: pronunciation of "ArithmeticException" Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 05:06 -0800
                Re: pronunciation of "ArithmeticException" Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-02-16 09:28 -0500
                Re: pronunciation of "ArithmeticException" Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 07:37 -0800
                Re: pronunciation of "ArithmeticException" Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-02-16 11:13 -0500
            Re: pronunciation of "ArithmeticException" Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2017-02-15 16:24 -0800
              Re: pronunciation of "ArithmeticException" Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-02-15 22:55 -0500
                Re: pronunciation of "ArithmeticException" a.laforgia@gmail.com - 2017-02-16 02:09 -0800
                Re: pronunciation of "ArithmeticException" Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-02-16 09:31 -0500
                Re: pronunciation of "ArithmeticException" a.laforgia@gmail.com - 2017-02-16 11:09 -0800
                Re: pronunciation of "ArithmeticException" Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-02-16 14:34 -0500
                Re: pronunciation of "ArithmeticException" a.laforgia@gmail.com - 2017-02-16 12:14 -0800
                Re: pronunciation of "ArithmeticException" Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-02-16 20:08 -0500
                Re: pronunciation of "ArithmeticException" Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2017-02-16 19:40 +0000
                Re: pronunciation of "ArithmeticException" a.laforgia@gmail.com - 2017-02-16 12:19 -0800
                Re: pronunciation of "ArithmeticException" Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-02-16 20:09 -0500
                Re: pronunciation of "ArithmeticException" Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2017-02-16 09:41 -0800
                Re: pronunciation of "ArithmeticException" Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-02-16 14:46 -0500
                Re: pronunciation of "ArithmeticException" Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 13:58 -0800
                Re: pronunciation of "ArithmeticException" Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-02-16 20:11 -0500
  Re: pronunciation of "ArithmeticException" a.laforgia@gmail.com - 2017-02-16 01:57 -0800
  Re: pronunciation of "ArithmeticException" Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2017-02-16 18:31 +0000
    Re: pronunciation of "ArithmeticException" Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2017-02-16 13:48 -0500
      Re: pronunciation of "ArithmeticException" Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-02-16 14:14 -0500
      Re: pronunciation of "ArithmeticException" Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2017-02-16 20:28 +0000
    Re: pronunciation of "ArithmeticException" a.laforgia@gmail.com - 2017-02-16 11:10 -0800
    Re: pronunciation of "ArithmeticException" Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-02-16 14:31 -0500

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