Loo-Kistic or Loo-Systic?

another resurrected thread...

Loo-kis-tic.

I studied under a veterinarian and herpetologist. He had a blog that was lost for a while due to a server crash. He has just recently got a new blog and his first post was about lucism.

I have to say that he is right, since completing vet school and dealing with researchers and vets, I can say that if you say loo-sis-tic people talk about you, and not in a good way. They say you are ignorant or (as one herpetologist said it) a "Philistine."

http://veterinaryherpetologist.blogspot.com

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Originally Posted by admmoon

Loo-kis-tic.

I studied under a veterinarian and herpetologist. He had a blog that was lost for a while due to a server crash. He has just recently got a new blog and his first post was about lucism.

I have to say that he is right, since completing vet school and dealing with researchers and vets, I can say that if you say loo-sis-tic people talk about you, and not in a good way. They say you are ignorant or (as one herpetologist said it) a "Philistine."

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Again, it depends on where you're from. The vets here call them loo-sys-tics, and they'd give you funny looks if you'd pronounce it a different way.

That is why it should have been spelled Leukistic from the start. As Dr. Walden pointed out, the leuc- prefix is the Latin version that was borrowed (since there was no K in Classical Latin and c always had the K sound) from Greek. The Greek was leukos.

For that reason the word can also be correctly spelled with the Greek prefix leuk-.

That is why I generally spell it leukism and leukistic. It helps those that are not well educated in medical and scientific terminology to pronounce it correctly.

Here in North Carolina there is a town called Gastonia. The correct way to say it is "Gas-toe-nee-a", but most mis-pronounce it as " Gassed on ya"... :rofl:


Another commonly mis-pronounced city is Tokyo. It is a 2 syllable word "To-kyo", not the popular "To-kee-o"

Heh,

On the west coast we have a town called "Strathhaven" - it is pronounced Stray-vin to the confusion of even other scotsmen.


dr del