A friend said that epitome is pronounced as epi-tuh-mi and not epi-tome (with the tome like home). Who is right? Also, is the pronunciation purely dependent on the region where you learnt English?
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A friend said that epitome is pronounced as epi-tuh-mi and not epi-tome (with the tome like home). Who is right? Also, is the pronunciation purely dependent on the region where you learnt English?
Epitome comes from Greek but it was introduced in English via the Medieval French épitomé. It’s now very rarely used in French, really found only in scholarly works.
Note the acute accent at the end. This is why you pronounce it with an ‘i’. For instance: Beauté => Beauty.