Pronunciation of "Eysenck"
Gena Pixley
Hello,
I have to give a presentation next week and I haven't been able to get a
consensus on how to pronounce "Eysenck", the guy with the personality
inventory. I've heard about four different pronunciations, and haven't
had any luck with psychological dictionaries.
Any help would be appreciated; I'd hate to look naive in front of all my
professors.
Thanks,
Gena
ge...@ecst.csuchico.edu
Robert White
Eysenck is pronounced 'eye-sink'.
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Thomas Krueger
Eysenck is prounced eye-sank (it is German name)
ReDeYe
Gena Pixley <ge...@ecst.csuchico.edu> wrote:
>Hello,
>I have to give a presentation next week and I haven't been able to get a
>consensus on how to pronounce "Eysenck", the guy with the personality
>inventory. I've heard about four different pronunciations, and haven't
>had any luck with psychological dictionaries.
>Any help would be appreciated; I'd hate to look naive in front of all my
>professors.
>Thanks,
>Gena
>ge...@ecst.csuchico.edu
When I went to school it was pronounced "eye- sink" by my professors.
George Hammond
>When I went to school it was pronounced "eye- sink" by my professors.
>
According to the chairman of the committee on foreign relations for
the APA who is a personal friend of mine its "eye-zenk".
Thomas Krueger
Gena Pixley <ge...@ecst.csuchico.edu> wrote:
>Hello,
>I have to give a presentation next week and I haven't been able to get a
>consensus on how to pronounce "Eysenck", the guy with the personality
>inventory. I've heard about four different pronunciations, and haven't
>had any luck with psychological dictionaries.
>Any help would be appreciated; I'd hate to look naive in front of all my
>professors.
By the way - there are _two_ famous psychologist named Eysenck:
H.J. Eysenk (German)
M.W. Eysenck (British)
Which one you want to pronunciate???
Thomas
George Hammond
>
>By the way - there are _two_ famous psychologist named Eysenck:
>
>H.J. Eysenk (German)
>M.W. Eysenck (British)
>
>Thomas
>
.....wrong, there are 3-Eysenck's:
Hans Eysenck (father, editor of PAID))
Sybil B.G. Eysenck (wife, lecturer at IOP, U. London)
Micheal W. Eysenck (son, Head Psych dept, Bedford New College)
they are all English citizens and are all famous
psychologists and each author of scores or hundreds
of papers and books in Psychology.
George
Thomas Krueger
pr...@unix.ccsnet.com (George Hammond) wrote:
>>
>>By the way - there are _two_ famous psychologist named Eysenck:
>>
>>H.J. Eysenk (German)
>>M.W. Eysenck (British)
>>
>>Thomas
>>
>.....wrong, there are 3-Eysenck's:
>Hans Eysenck (father, editor of PAID))
>Sybil B.G. Eysenck (wife, lecturer at IOP, U. London)
Sorry, did not know her..
>Micheal W. Eysenck (son, Head Psych dept, Bedford New College)
>they are all English citizens and are all famous
>psychologists and each author of scores or hundreds
>of papers and books in Psychology.
>George
But H.J. was born in Berlin and lived in Germany for about 20 years
till he had to emigrate to England. Of course he is now English
citizen, but I _think_ he still pronunciates his name German, like
other emigrants (or how do you pronunciate for example Freud?).
Our department of Differental Psychology has some contact to him (-I
am sorry that our department of Cognitive Psychology has no contact to
his son ;-((), and they are pronunciate his name German - but this
could be of course some bias...
Thomas
Colin Cooper
Gena Pixley wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have to give a presentation next week and I haven't been able to get a
> consensus on how to pronounce "Eysenck", the guy with the personality
> inventory. I've heard about four different pronunciations, and haven't
> had any luck with psychological dictionaries.
>
> Any help would be appreciated; I'd hate to look naive in front of all my
> professors.
>
> Gena
> ge...@ecst.csuchico.edu
It's much as you'd expect:-
EYE senk with the stress on the first syllable.
Good luck with the presentation!
Colin
Dr. Rainer Riemann
>By the way - there are _two_ famous psychologist named Eysenck:
>H.J. Eysenk (German)
>M.W. Eysenck (British)
>Thomas
>
Rainer
Rolf Marvin Bře Lindgren
[Rainer Riemann]
| This raises the interesting question of heritability of pronunciation!
| Rainer
Nicklaus Wirth, Swiss professor of computer science and inventor of the
computer programming language Pascal, which was once popular among
intellectuals, has lamented that wheras Europeans usually pronounce his
name correctly, i.e. ~ Neeklaus Veerth, Americans tend to pronounce his
name Nickels' Worth. which is to say that in Europe he is called by
name, while in the USA, he is called by value.
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Rolf Lindgren, not a Ph.D | "The opinions expressed above are
9111 Sogn Studentby | not necessarily those of anyone"
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Robert White
>>By the way - there are _two_ famous psychologist named Eysenck:
>>H.J. Eysenk (German)
I would just like to correct George Hammond's spelling on Hans J.
_Eysenck's_ name. In fact, Hans J. Eysenck is from Germany, but lives
in England, but his name has always been spelled...
EYSENCK and not 'Eysenk'!
Good on you, George!
Robert
>>M.W. Eysenck (British)
>>Which one you want to pronunciate???
>>Thomas
>>
>This raises the interesting question of heritability of pronunciation!
>Rainer
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Does it matter which way you pronounce it