Fardels Bearriggbeck@mastodon.social
Jul 4, 2026, 11:59 AMScottish. I'd say ick-or, but I've never much thought about the pronunciation. Perhaps there's a transatlantic difference, in the same way that Americans say 'eye-ran' or 'eye-raq'.
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Artemisia VulgarisCommonMugwort@social.coopJul 4, 2026, 12:02 PM@riggbeck Well, this was my first hypothesis, but the majority of respondents are somewhere in the U.K. and they majority answer is eye….
(not all Americans do the eye-ran thing either)- Fardels Bearriggbeck@mastodon.socialJul 4, 2026, 12:15 PM
According to the Cambridge English Dictionary, it's pronounced the same way in the UK and US, which surprised me. But I'll stick with ick-or.
- Artemisia VulgarisCommonMugwort@social.coopJul 4, 2026, 12:19 PM
@riggbeck It’s the closest to the Greek, so it makes the most sense to me.
(But I am not here to tell people how to pronounce words.)