<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite">On Oct 9, 2021, at 3:08 PM, William_J_G Overington via Unicode <unicode@corp.unicode.org> wrote:<br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <div class="auto-created-dir-div" dir="auto" style="unicode-bidi: embed;"><style>p{margin:0}</style>James Kass wrote:<div><p><br></p><p>> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;">Neography is a splendid coinage.</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;"><br></span></p><p>How is the word 'neography' pronounced please?</p><p><br></p><p>It seems to be made up as including neo- and graph</p><p>,</p><p>but is it pronounced similarly to geography, as nee-og-raphy?</p><p><br></p><p>Or how please?</p></div></div></div></blockquote><br><div>The pronunciation would likely vary between British, American, Indian, and other world Englishes.</div><div><br></div><div>William, let’s follow your cue and model the pronunciation of ‘neography’ upon that of ‘geography’.</div><div><br></div><div>So just replace the ‘g’ with ‘n’… but no matter how you pronounce it, rest assured that we will understand what you mean whatever your optiphonetic analysis!</div><div><br></div><div>All my best,</div><div>Anshu</div><div><br></div></body></html>