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russ
pedagogy how do you pronouce it
russ
I'm going to have to look it up first. I might also use a thesaurus so I can avoid it in the future.
My IT Co-ord. - an english grad but 'peculiar' in his pronounciations sometimes... [he says 'dyude' not 'dude' maan!]. He pronounces both 'G's' as in get and not gem. Sounds stoopid to me as i've always thought it to be pedagodgy [as in dodgy
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If you consider the word "Pedagogue", a late Middle English word derived, via Latin, from the Greek "paidagogos" (denoting a slave who accompanied a child to school [pais. paid- 'boy' + agogos 'guide'] ) you would consider it to have the letter g hardened both times it appears.
However, the word "pedagogy" is derived from the later usage of the word Pedagogue, when it actually meant a teacher or instructor who was a slave. This comes from when the translation 'boy-guide' stopped meaning a slave who went to school with a child, but to one who schooled a child. The usage of the word changed in both Greece and Rome to mean the latter ...
This meant that the French took the word 'paidagogia' (the second g is softened to sound like the letter j) which means "office of the pedagogue".
Our use of the word pedagogue as a teacher comes directly from the latin usage in church, whereas the use of pedagogy (with the second g being softened as it was originally pedagogie ...) is derived from the French
(Taken from my Latin notes from 17 years ago ... and double checked again online etymology pages. I was happily surprised to find out my teachers did actually know what they were talking about ... who would have thought it!!!)
tony you are full of cra.... i mean knowledge....
so after all that are we saying it s pronouced ped-a-go-je with gy being as je gee up
russ
I consider myself educated! :P
Not that I want this to go on any more [pleees!!!], but it's funny that pedantic [putting people down] is similar to the word for teacher then... :P
lol
Pedagogy definition may be able to tell you, if you can read those wacky phonetic spellings (or have sound)Originally Posted by russdev
why thank you all so there we go...
Rus
I still don't know why people like to use the damn word!
It's all a load of twaddle really ...
When I used an M$ box as my daily machine I used to have a nice plug-in for Office called BullFighter (available from http://www.fightthebull.com) that I found really handy to use.
And some of the worst stuff was from the unions ... oh ... or Tony B's speeches.
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