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Re: Okay, now what about ingenipes?



Quoting Tommy Bradley <htomsirveaux@mybluelight.com>:

>      But I'm totally confused as to the pronunciation.  I'm thinking it's
> something like "in-jeh-NIP-ees" or "IN-gen-i-PES," but this is judst and
> offhand assumption.
>      As usual, any help on this subject would be greatly apperciated.

I'd go with in-JEN-ih-pess or in-JEN-ih-peez.

BTW, the stem of the Latin for 'gigantic, massive' is actually *ingent-*, so 
it should really be "ingentipes".  Oh, well.

Nick Pharris
Department of Linguistics
University of Michigan