compunk wrote:
> Hi.
> I know econ is a short form of economics.
> But I want to know to pronounce it.
>
> Bye.
I've heard this as /'i:ka:n/ in IPA or EE-kahn. It's pretty informal,
however -- you'd probably wouldn't hear it anywhere but a college
campus in the States.
The resident British English expert of this group, a certain irascible,
utterly humorless individual commonly knows as Chris Croughton (or, on
occasion, "Puff Daddy" C & C Lexical Factory) might be tempted to
produce a similar version of what goes on in Ye Olde Country.
Sorry, Chris, I'm feeling my Wheaties today.
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