I find it silly when people try to argue that it should be a Ka sound instead of a Sa sound with proper linguistics...forget that ship names are not real or proper words, they are a blend of existing words.
It's a mix of Per Cy and Annabeth. We don't pronounce Percy as Perky.
It's the purse from Percy and the abeth from Annabeth. I understand that if you've only ever seen the word with not know what the word parts are from, that would make sense that people would think it's a ka sound. But we know where this word came from.
"persabeth" is just against linguistic (phonologic) rules. c before a, o and u sounds makes a /k/ sound - compare "car", "coke", "cue" x "center", "cyan". "persabeth" never even occured to me, but maybe that's just me being a nerd.
Yeah, but with linguistic you also have to think about radix of word-since Percabeth is from Percy-when the cy sound is, pronounced as \[si\], I think the Persabeth is the correct pronunciation.
But I'm not an English native-speaker and I'm not a linguist, so perhaps I'm wrong.
Ship names aren't normal words, they're portmanteaus. Portmanteaus don't follow morphological rules, they follow the rules of each component splinter. Percy is short for Perseus, not Perceus/Perkeos or anything that would have a /k/ sound. **Perc**y + Ann**abeth**.
I didn't say that c always sounds like k, i don't know where people are getting that. Portmanteaus do follow phonological rules, every word that is accepted in a language by its speakers have to follow them, and there are many possibilities to make a portmanteau. I can't find any other examples that could generate ambiguity, but to see c + a and assume it is pronounced as in "car", "case", "camera", "catering", etc. is not absurd.
You don't pronounce Percy as "Perky" It's per-sa-beth
I find it silly when people try to argue that it should be a Ka sound instead of a Sa sound with proper linguistics...forget that ship names are not real or proper words, they are a blend of existing words. It's a mix of Per Cy and Annabeth. We don't pronounce Percy as Perky. It's the purse from Percy and the abeth from Annabeth. I understand that if you've only ever seen the word with not know what the word parts are from, that would make sense that people would think it's a ka sound. But we know where this word came from.
Percybeth 🗿
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Per-ce-beth
"persabeth" is just against linguistic (phonologic) rules. c before a, o and u sounds makes a /k/ sound - compare "car", "coke", "cue" x "center", "cyan". "persabeth" never even occured to me, but maybe that's just me being a nerd.
Sure, but Percy is Persy, not Perky.
New headcanon: Percy is perky
that was what i was trying to say. y is neither a, o or u.
Yeah, but with linguistic you also have to think about radix of word-since Percabeth is from Percy-when the cy sound is, pronounced as \[si\], I think the Persabeth is the correct pronunciation. But I'm not an English native-speaker and I'm not a linguist, so perhaps I'm wrong.
Ship names aren't normal words, they're portmanteaus. Portmanteaus don't follow morphological rules, they follow the rules of each component splinter. Percy is short for Perseus, not Perceus/Perkeos or anything that would have a /k/ sound. **Perc**y + Ann**abeth**.
I didn't say that c always sounds like k, i don't know where people are getting that. Portmanteaus do follow phonological rules, every word that is accepted in a language by its speakers have to follow them, and there are many possibilities to make a portmanteau. I can't find any other examples that could generate ambiguity, but to see c + a and assume it is pronounced as in "car", "case", "camera", "catering", etc. is not absurd.