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I've always pronounced it "Nee-ta" myself.

same

To rhyme with "wetter" myself...

NEH-TA here.

Long E. ALthough I never really worried about it.

Neater.

Yeah I've always said it as "NEE-tuh".

Weirdos!

George Gilbert wrote:To rhyme with "wetter" myself...

You Brits and your crazy way of talking...

Just ignoring that r! It must get lonely!

Well, go on then - how do you say it?

Can't do the poll - Most non-English-speakers wouldn't pronounce it like an english "e" anyway, no matter whether short or long.

I've always pronounced it "NAY-ta".

nee-ta for me, like the Greek letter Beta - though I have heard this pronounced bay-ta, a la RK.

Nay-ta or neh-ta, like R.K. and Trantor. Rhymes with beta or feta cheese.

Edit: O.K. Not like Trantor. I pronounce it nay-ta like R.K.

i pronounce feta cheese feh-ta and beta bay-ta so those don't rhymne for me

I knew this would throw up far more than was expected. Tomatoe, tomatoe...

I pronounce it a bit more sarcastically

Net-duuuhh!

(that joke was sponsored by Relisys, providing efficient monitors since 1978)

I pronounce "Beta" the same too - "bee-tuh"...what about the "Ceti" in "Tau Ceti" (the name of a star)? I say it as "SEE-ty" but I've heard it pronounced as "SET-ee" on telly...but I think that was by Americans though so mayby they pronounce it differently *looks in Soph's direction*.

It's "set-ee".

settee too, like the thing you sit on

I pronounce it "setty".

Is your SEE-ty with a "tee" or a "tie" sounding ty?

Isn't language fun?

It's "ty" as in "tye"/"tie". I think it's 'cause that's how my dad says it so that's how I say it, 'cause it's in "Frontier Elite II", a game we had on the Atari.

do people pronounce that 'at-TAR-ry' or 'at-ah-ree' :)

I say "uh-TAH-ree".

lol, me too

yes yes yes, but how would you pronounce "Pronoiai Allagion", who were ancient Byzantine heavy horsemen!

If you are standing around trying to pronounce it, I assume you will be dead from ancient byzantine spears pretty soon anyway so your answer would be moot.

y'all are crazy! Let the cow articulate for you.. everything is pronounced "MOO!" .... the cow has spoken... thank you..

The cow has spoken! His will be done!

Whilst we're on the subject of pronunciation, I've been playing a superb board game called "Caylus" with some fellow game geeks recently and we're not too sure how to say it.

The Klingon version comes to mind first (KAY-LUSS) but as it is a French town I would have thought it was more likely to be SAY-LOO or KAY-LOO... or KAY-MOO ?

Well, seeing that word, I read it as "KAY-lus"