My wife pronounces it three different ways, each of which she can support. I pronounce it one, but other than that it’s the way I’ve heard it I can’t support my pronunciation even after some searches. What’s yours and why?
My wife pronounces it three different ways, each of which she can support. I pronounce it one, but other than that it’s the way I’ve heard it I can’t support my pronunciation even after some searches. What’s yours and why?
Sen-tar
Because that’s the only way I’ve ever even heard it pronounced. This thread is gonna be wild.
I thought this question would get almost no attention, but so far I’ve gotten almost one response per minute. Well predicted.
I even learned that local language changes things from a couple replies, which I hadn’t considered.
I pronounce it centaur, as in it rhymes with faur, kaur, boobaur. You know, the “aur” sound, like “ooohhuuuurrr” but more dynamic.
Me too. I’m not a pedantic Latin-pronouncer who’d say “ken-tower”
I recognise that “kentawur” is correct, but reject it because “sentar” just sounds more correct.
Just because an English word was originally Latin and is written the same way, doesn’t mean it’s pronounced the same way. It’s an English word now. It has an English pronunciation, pluralisation and definition that can all be different from the original. “Kentawur” is not correct for the English word.