Anyone else pronounce capAcitor as capacItor? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Bud
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 03, 2019, 05:25:01 am
content: I did not know if to laugh or cry when heard countless times Louis Rossmann saying "capacItor" in his videos. Unless he was joking. Anyone else calls capAcitors "capacItors" ?

author: floobydust
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 03, 2019, 06:03:00 am
content: It must be that East coast, NYC accent.Leave my condensa out of this.

author: vk6zgo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 03, 2019, 06:36:43 am
content: Sorry, can you run that by me again?I read "capacitors" & it comes out as, well, "capacitors", with both "As" pronounced as in "cat".The "I" sounds like the "I" in "sit", or "mitt".It is all very "low key" with no undue emphasis on either of the letters in question.

author: bsudbrink
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 03, 2019, 07:57:23 pm
content: I think it's a British thing... go listen to Edd China say "carburetor" in old episodes of "Wheeler Dealers" on YouTube.

author: Bud
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 03, 2019, 11:50:30 pm
content: Quote from: vk6zgo on June 03, 2019, 06:36:43 amI mean he puts emphasis on "i" , like capa-'citor rather than ca-'pacitor

author: qnhan10a3
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: July 23, 2019, 09:26:45 am
content: great that 's very good to me

author: Berni
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 23, 2019, 10:31:44 am
content: I pronounce it exaggeratedly like that when i was to say capacitor in a silly way.Still better than Ben Hecks pronunciation of multimeter with the emphasis on I

author: johnlsenchak
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 23, 2019, 11:30:36 pm
content: I did this as a young teenager just learning about electronics I pronounced it as Ca- Pak-a-Tor It kind of like when Outback Davementionedthat he pronounced "Diode" asDio-Deeas a young kid , which I got a kick out of

author: vk6zgo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 24, 2019, 01:35:51 am
content: I remember back when I did "Elementary Electrical Theory" at Perth Tech School, the Lecturer had a "hate on" for the way people tended to write "resistor" & "capacitor" as "resister" & "capaciterrespectively.He spent several classes exphasising the correct spelling, saying "resist-OR" & "capacit-OR", until it had sunk into our thick skulls, then reverted to pronouncing them as "resistuh" & "capacituh", like mostother Australians.(the sound "uh!" is an important component of Australian English!)

author: johnlsenchak
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 24, 2019, 02:09:07 am
content: Quote from: vk6zgo on July 24, 2019, 01:35:51 amThis would explain a lot on how Dave pronounces words , I also noticed that with Sagan It's like a offshoot of the English ( England) dialect

author: Berni
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 24, 2019, 05:11:33 am
content: I watched too many of Daves videos, so i don't even notice any of the Aussie pronunciation because i have gotten so used to it..I had a teacher that i thought talked funny when i met him, but then after a while i stopped noticing it. And still to this day i have no idea if i got used to his weird voice or if he just had a bad cold and full nose when i met him and doesn't anymore.

author: Dataforensics
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 24, 2019, 06:41:08 am
content: Think I would need to hear these two spoken.I have just been saying it in my head and seem to give the A and I equal emphasis.