How do you pronounce "eurydice"?

#1

How do you pronounce "eurydice"?

Posted: 6/19/07 at 10:00am

Yur-ee-dice?

Yew-rih-diss?

Another way?

Just wondering. Thanks.

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#2

re: How do you pronounce 'eurydice'?

Posted: 6/19/07 at 10:03am

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#3

re: How do you pronounce 'eurydice'?

Posted: 6/19/07 at 10:03am

yew-ri-di-see

#4

re: How do you pronounce 'eurydice'?

Posted: 6/19/07 at 10:08am

I'd go with the first, millie.

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#5

re: How do you pronounce 'eurydice'?

Posted: 6/19/07 at 10:10am

Either of the following are acceptable:

you-rid-a-see

or

your-id-a-see.

#6

re: How do you pronounce 'eurydice'?

Posted: 6/19/07 at 10:16am

And the accent is on the second syllable:

You RID a see.

#7

re: How do you pronounce 'eurydice'?

Posted: 6/19/07 at 10:27am

Also, you-rid-a-chee. Another option.

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#8

re: How do you pronounce 'eurydice'?

Posted: 6/19/07 at 10:28am

That's how my Greek godmother says it:

"Also, you-rid-a-chee. Another option."

#9

re: How do you pronounce 'eurydice'?

Posted: 6/19/07 at 10:34am

I've studied Greek in school for 6 years, and we've done stories of Orpheus and Eurydice, etc.

It's Your-id-ee-cheh.

Ending with see instead of che(h) may be commonly used, but is NOT correct.

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#10

re: How do you pronounce 'eurydice'?

Posted: 6/19/07 at 10:46am

If you're referring to Sarah Ruhl's play, I pronounce it "horrendous".

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#11

re: How do you pronounce 'eurydice'?

Posted: 6/19/07 at 10:56am

In Italian, as in the Handel opera, it is you-ri-DEE-chay.

#12

re: How do you pronounce 'eurydice'?

Posted: 6/19/07 at 12:04pm

if you went by IPA for Italian, it would come out a-oo-ri-dee-tchay.

#13

re: How do you pronounce 'eurydice'?

Posted: 6/19/07 at 12:29pm

Keen, that Italian pronunciation is correct, but the opera you are referring to is by Gluck, not Handel.

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#14

re: How do you pronounce 'eurydice'?

Posted: 6/19/07 at 12:44pm

Like your idiocy without the second 'i'.

:)

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#15

re: How do you pronounce 'eurydice'?

Posted: 6/19/07 at 12:47pm

ell oh ell AC1, I read your review on your blog and was quite amused.

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#16

re: How do you pronounce 'eurydice'?

Posted: 6/19/07 at 2:50pm

Absolutely right to my two subsequent posters. Thanks! Why do I assume that everything I have seen David Daniels in is Handel?

#17

re: How do you pronounce 'eurydice'?

Posted: 6/19/07 at 2:56pm

It's a fair assumption. I think about 95% of his repetoire is Handel. The pickings are pretty slim for countertenors.

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"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

#18

re: How do you pronounce 'eurydice'?

Posted: 6/19/07 at 3:24pm

You-rih-dis-see.

#19

re: How do you pronounce 'eurydice'?

Posted: 6/19/07 at 7:02pm

"Euro-Dyke"

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#20

re: How do you pronounce 'eurydice'?

Posted: 6/19/07 at 7:07pm

The Italian pronunciation (with Latin roots) is Euro-dee-chay.

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#21

re: How do you pronounce 'eurydice'?

Posted: 6/19/07 at 9:12pm

Not sure how to pronounce it, but hope I can see it. Ruhl's play "Dead Man's Cellphone is currently premiering at Woolly Mammoth in DC (where some of her other works also have had homes) and it has a very strong, smart book. The set design, casting, and staging is very effective.

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#22

re: How do you pronounce 'eurydice'?

Posted: 6/19/07 at 10:20pm

http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=Eurydice

Go there, and click on the little red speaker icon next to the main entry. I love that tool.

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#23

re: How do you pronounce 'eurydice'?

Posted: 6/19/07 at 10:35pm

Well, in Greek, the name is Evridiki, with the tone in di ! For us Greeks, Euridice sounds awfully funny !

#24

re: How do you pronounce 'eurydice'?

Posted: 6/22/07 at 11:05pm

In the show they say you-RID-uh-see.

Saw it tonight. I'm still processing...and just now feeling fully vertical again ~ I was slanted for a while. I didn't dislike it...it's definitely different though.

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