Fresnel - how do you pronounce it?
This has caused a lot of beer exchange chez nous - would like to expand it to the further community.
How do *you* produce Fresnel? i) Frennel ii) Frez-nell So where are you from? ... Maybe it's a US/UK thing (UK likes 'Fillet', US likes 'Filay', so UK likes 'Frez-nell' and I guess the US likes 'Frennel')... |
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Now "fillet" is a little more complicated. As a technical term related to drafting, carpentry or welding we would always say "fill-ett." But if you're ordering a steak in a restaurant you'd say "fil-lay minn-yon" |
I have the Concise OED and it recommends "fray-nell", though I just say "fruh-nell".
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fre-nel
It's French, man. |
Where's the accent? I've been saying fre-NEL. Is that right?
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Accent on second.
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A fur-NELL has a frez-nul lens on it. Everybody I know says fur-NELL.
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Probably the same ones who think "Smooth Operator" is a song by someone named Sharday. :)
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My Frezznel is the shizznit!
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From the Wiki:
Augustin-Jean Fresnel (pronounced [freɪ 'nel] in AmE (or fray-NELL), [fʁɛ nɛl] in French) (May 10, 1788 – July 14, 1827), was a French physicist who contributed significantly to the establishment of the theory of wave optics. Fresnel studied the behaviour of light both theoretically and experimentally. |
I stopped calling them Fresnel lights and now call them Freedom-lights.
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Merriam-Webster on-line pronounces both Fray-nel and Frez-nel for lenses. Go figure! You can hear the pronounciation at http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary
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