I played my first game of Agricola yesterday. Naturally, I'm left with a bunch of questions, but chief among them is: How do you pronounce the name of this game? Our group was split pretty evenly between "AG-ri-co-la" and "a-GREEK-o-la". Which side (or maybe neither!) is correct?
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Erik P's reference to Wiktionary is correct, but he is interpreting the IPA pronunciation incorrectly.
/aˈɡri.ko.la/ is ah-GRIH-koh-lah. You can hear it pronounced by Merriam-Webster here.
BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft
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+1 Thanks. I'm Dutch, so translating the latin pronunciation in my head into a fake English one is not my strong point :) – Erik P. Dec 19 '10 at 19:59
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My browser crashed on that link so I looked for alternatives. I found this one for latin: http://de.forvo.com/word/agricola/ And this one for spanish: http://www.forvo.com/word/agr%C3%ADcola/ – Kempeth Dec 19 '10 at 22:14
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3I studied Latin at Oxford, so I'd hope I'm at least a moderate authority on such matters, and this answer looks correct to me! – thesunneversets Dec 20 '10 at 00:25
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@Kempeth: Try this link and click on the little speaker symbol next to the word. – BlueRaja - Danny Pflughoeft Dec 20 '10 at 02:10
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I wasn't looking for this question, but I'm so glad I found this answer! Now to go tell my gamer friends that I was right and they should stop saying a-gri-COH-la. – Johno Jun 12 '12 at 15:21
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1Actually, Eric is right about the IPA and you are wrong. The symbol /i/ is EE, not IH, as the very Wikipedia link you gave points out. – JSBձոգչ Jul 09 '12 at 00:47
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@BlueRaja-DannyPflughoeft, right, and those are the vowel in "greed", not the vowel in "grid". – JSBձոգչ Jul 09 '12 at 00:52
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Say it however you want (don't insist that all your friends say it the 'right' way). If you care, the author of the game pronounces it ah-GREE-ko-la.
10:20 into the interview: http://www.cliquenabend.de/videos/450000-Hernevideospezial-Uwe-Rosenberg.html
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Among my group, we pronounce it "ah-greek-OH-la". Based on the fact that the designer is German, my so-so knowledge of German, and lack of facts that prove me wrong, I 'd say this is the "correct" pronounciation.
Disclaimer: I 'm Greek. We pronounce things quite differently than Americans.
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I learned ah-GREE-ko-lah in school, and Wiktionary seems to bear me out: according to this page, the (classical) pronunciation in IPA was /aˈɡri.ko.la/, and according to this table on wikipedia the quote precedes the stressed syllable.
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My high school Latin taught me a-GREE-ko-lah as well. The second syllable definitely gets the stress, though as BlueRaja points out it may be "grih" instead of "gree". – lilserf Dec 19 '10 at 19:03
