[PROJ] How is PROJ pronounced?

[Paul Harwood]

Since you have started ...


I am London English and I say it (like you based on that fact it is short
for projection) with the same vowel as US "process" and not the vowel from
UK "process" ... No one ever said that the English were consistent ... :).

But to be honest, the o sounds in English English ( as opposed to Scottish
or Welsh or RP) are highly class dependant.

No one is ever going to agree about the bowl sounds. The consistent part is
that it ends with a hard(-ish) "j"

On Mon, 27 Mar 2023, 13:05 Greg Troxel, <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:

> Javier Jimenez Shaw <j1 at jimenezshaw.com> writes:
>
> > Recently somebody asked me why do I pronounce PROJ that way.
> > What I try to say is /ˈprɒdʒ/  ( hear it somehow
> > http://ipa-reader.xyz/?text=%CB%88pr%C9%92d%CA%92 )
> > Is there any "official" way or consensus about it?
>
> My opinions have formed in a vacuum separated from actually talking to
> others, but:
>
>   I see PROJ as sort for "projection".
>
>   I pronounce it as rhyming with "dodge".  This has a different vowel
>   and different voicing of the j sound than when I say the word
>   projection.
>
>   I view my pronunciation as the way I expect other native en_US
>   speakers to read it (knowing/guessing "proj is short for projection")
>   without any prior experience.  en_CA and maybe en_GB I would maybe
>   expect a long O, but I am pretty sure Gerald Evenden was from the US.
>
> Relative to the ipa-reader.xyz "sally - american", I say it faster, with
> the vowel being maybe 2/3 the length and the j even less.  But it's
> quite close, and I'm from ~Boston so I talk wicked fast compared to
> people from e.g. Georgia.
>
> You can hear a shift to a slightly longer O in "brian - british".  A
> Canadian might have a much larger shift to fully long O, the way they
> would says "process", but I think the short word somewhat avoids that.
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