Word pronounciation question

[skykiii]

There's this word, "quixotic." It comes from the novel Don Quixote.

Here's what confuses me: "Quixote" is a Spanish name and is pronounced Kee-hoh-tay. But "quixotic" is pronounced "quick sot ick." Shouldn't it be kee-ho-tic to match its source?

 

[W'rkncacnter]

How many syllables in fire? Also it should be kee-ho-tic but isn't sadly.

 

[TEA 3HF]

I'm still pronouncing it Kee-hoh-tic. Quick-sot-tic is clunky, annoying, and fucking gay.

 

[RileyCampbell]

Me too.

 

[Accidental Racism]

I've never heard it pronounced anything but "kee-YAH-tic", "kee-HOH-tic" sounds like how a redditor would say it and "quick sot tick" sounds retarded

 

[Wright]

Just call the dude 'Quick-sote' and it all lines up, that's my method

 

[vomitusdeux]

If someone says "quick sot ick" to me I'm going to just start hysterically sobbing, like 0-100 on intensity, and be inconsolable until they say it correctly.

 

[Moral Decay]

Actually, it's pronounced kee-zoh-tich.

Source: Me. I am the sole arbiter of all pronunciation.

 

[Bogan]

Of course we all know that Archipelago is pronounced or-pej-lee-oh.

 

[David Brown]

Phlegm(atic)

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

Shouldn't it be

Starting any question about the English language with this is a bad move.

 

[William F. Clinton]

It's pronounced like "CWC-quote".

 

[I'm Retarded?]

surely you've heard of Don Quicksote, the Man of La Mayncha

If someone says "quick sot ick" to me I'm going to just start hysterically sobbing, like 0-100 on intensity, and be inconsolable until they say it correctly.

your resistance only makes my penis harder

 

[We Are The Witches]

You are talking about an anglicised term, probably coined like that so that english speakers could say it with ease or with less difficulty, so the "supposedly correct" way (/kwɪkˈsɒtɪk/) should be the proper one, in English of course.

At the end of the day you can say it however you want, if you do your other pronunciation (which I think makes more sense, but might not be as correct as the other one, officially) it will sound more like its source.

But still wouldn't be quite like it. After all, it's "Don Quijote", a spanish person pronounces the "j", while an english speaker would do with what resembles an "h".

If it was in spanish, it would be "quijotesco" or "quijotesca".

 

[Dysnomia]

But "quixotic" is pronounced "quick sot ick."

It is? I thought it was Kee-ho-tic. Although I have never heard it said outload.

 

[Black Man Underwear]

kwee hot ick

 

[Ventrue]

Bobby, it's pronounced Key-Whoo-Tee in Spanish, ask your mother.

 

[dongykung]

i never hear the word

 

[Your Starter for 10]

Who gives a shit how a bunch of Mexicans pronounce anything.

Plus, you're just tilting at windmills if you think you're going to change how or figure out why English works.

 

[skykiii]

you're just tilting at windmills

I see what you did there.