Pronounce TRIFED

What is the correct way to say TRIFED as in M8?

TRY-FED or TRIFF ED?



Play it safe.....just say "em ate"

Blll

I see no one has picked up on my correction of the misspelling: it's
Trifid, not Trifed.

I could of.

Howard Lester wrote:
I see no one has picked up on my correction of the misspelling: it's
Trifid, not Trifed.

"Howard Lester" wrote in message ...

I see no one has picked up on my correction of the misspelling: it's
Trifid, not Trifed.

That's correct, and it's an actual word in English, too. The American
pronunciation is "try-fid" (long i, then short i) with more emphasis
on the first syllable.


- Robert Cook

I see no one has picked up on my correction of the misspelling: it's
Trifid, not Trifed.

That's correct, and it's an actual word in English, too. The American
pronunciation is "try-fid" (long i, then short i) with more emphasis
on the first syllable.

- Robert Cook

I'd always said TRIH-fid to myself, but TRY-fid makes more sense if maybe it
refers to a partition into three.

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"Howard Lester" wrote in message ...

(Robert Cook) wrote in message
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The American
pronunciation is "try-fid" (long i, then short i) with more emphasis
on the first syllable.

I'd always said TRIH-fid to myself, but TRY-fid makes more sense if maybe it
refers to a partition into three.

Indeed it does--it means that something is divided into three areas by
narrow but long/deep gaps. I'd say that this pretty accurately
describes the object itself:

http://www.seds.org/messier/m/m020.html


- Robert Cook

"Howard Lester" wrote in
:

I see no one has picked up on my correction of the misspelling:
it's
Trifid, not Trifed.

That's correct, and it's an actual word in English, too. The
American pronunciation is "try-fid" (long i, then short i) with more
emphasis on the first syllable.

- Robert Cook

I'd always said TRIH-fid to myself, but TRY-fid makes more sense if
maybe it refers to a partition into three.

You might sound funny at the ballpark if you yelled, "Look at that! A TRY-
ple play!"

"Paul Lawler" wrote

I'd always said TRIH-fid to myself, but TRY-fid makes more sense if
maybe it refers to a partition into three.

You might sound funny at the ballpark if you yelled, "Look at that! A TRY-
ple play!"

Maybe so, but if you've studied English in this country as long as I have,
you know that the language is not exactly straightforward in either spelling
or pronunciation!

Howard




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"Howard Lester" wrote in
:


"Paul Lawler" wrote

I'd always said TRIH-fid to myself, but TRY-fid makes more sense if
maybe it refers to a partition into three.

You might sound funny at the ballpark if you yelled, "Look at that! A
TRY- ple play!"

Maybe so, but if you've studied English in this country as long as I
have, you know that the language is not exactly straightforward in
either spelling or pronunciation!

I guess it depends on who you like. American Heritage says "TRY-fid" and
Merriam Webster says "TRI-fid".