[Haskell-cafe] Monad pronounced like gonad?

[Dipankar Ray]

I cringe to post to a thread with this subject line, but no American 
mathematician I know would call it "Moe-nad".

I think the US math consensus is "Mon - ad", where mon is like the 
faux-jamaican "Hey, mon", or (more to the point) monoid or monomorphism.

Sometimes Dictionaries are only as good as (their current crop of 
fact-checkers) x (current budget)

On Thu, 10 May 2007, Melissa O'Neill wrote:

> Although I hate to resort to dictionaries, curiosity got the better of me and 
> I find the following.
>
> According to both Merriam Webster and the OED, monad is indeed pronounced 
> exactly like gonad.  BUT, in the UK at least, there is more than way to 
> pronounce gonad, so it doesn't necessarily clarify things.
>
> In the US (according to Merriam Webster), it appears that the correct 
> pronunciation is mō-nad, like joe-nad.
>
> In the UK (according to the OED), it appears that the pronunciation is either 
> mȯ-nad, like gone-bad (i.e., with an "o" sound like the "o" in lot or pot), 
> or  mō-nad, like joe-nad.
>
> So, from this information, we can conclude that to be truly international, go 
> with the long O sound, and to sound more English, use the short o sound.
>
>   Melissa.
>
> P.S. See http://mw1.merriam-webster.com/pronsymbols.html for the meanings of 
> the phonetic symbols "ō" and "ȯ". (Assuming they make it through email, 
> etc., which is probably unlikely, but we'll see.)
>
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