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Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
This post is in memory of Bot #001 who sadly blew away in the wind.
According to le Google, it’s pronounced ‘kil-ee-an’, so a ‘hard c’. I’ve always said ‘sill-ee-an’, but I also have never heard it said aloud so --shrug–
/ˈkɪliən/ , since this is his wiki page and his people would have final say I think hard k
why didn’t I think to look it up before 🙄
I big phat linguistics and etymology nerd, so i love looking that stuff up. It’s Irish so yeah, hard ‘K’ sound.
Get lost down the rabbithole of etymonline. I just wish there were more resources for languages that aren’t daughter-languages of P.I.E. But the answer to that honestly is to just learn a language like Finnish and read the sources for Proto-Uralic. Sigh, so much to learn!!