Talk:Elytron

Pronunciation
This edit changed the given pronunciation from to, listing two sources. The first, Miniature Lives, gives no pronunciation in the portion available in the Google Books preview. The citation gives a page number (313), but the Google Books preview lacks page numbers for some reason, so I can't confirm whether that's one of the available pages. The second cited source, The Canadian Entomologist volume 41, appears to give no pronunciation anywhere (though I didn't have the patience to check every instance of the word), and it's 111 years out of date besides.

On the other hand, even a brief search turns up other reliable and contemporary sources that all give the pronunciation or a close variation of it. I checked over a dozen sources (though I didn't vet them for reliability), and not one of them lists anything like. Thoughts? —&thinsp;Ardub23 (talk) 18:56, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

I suspect the edit was influenced by Minecraft rather than anything else. I have looked at three dictionaries, two online (Collins and Merriam-Webster) and a paper copy of the OED and all give the non-diphthongal version, so I cited Collins since it uses IPA and re-edited the pronunciation. I have left the other sources since they corroborate the definition and etymology - but say nothing about pronunciation DL67 (talk) 01:15, 4 December 2020 (UTC)


 * FWIW - professional entomologists in English-speaking countries almost universally pronounce the first two syllables as in the word "elite". It is exceedingly rare to hear a "hard Y" sound. Dyanega (talk) 17:12, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

image
It seems odd that the article for elytron has an image displaying hemelytra instead. Yes, they are similar, but they are not the same. ~TPW 16:13, 5 July 2022 (UTC)