Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Today's word

ultima /UL-tuh-muh/ - the last syllable of a word
This definition makes sense, given what I already knew about the related ultimate and penultimate. I think I was more familiar with the related penult, though I think I'd heard of neither ultima nor penultima
I think I'll probably end up pronouncing this word as /UL-tih-muh/, even though that isn't given as an alternate pronunciation.
Also, with apologies to the reader: the ultima of syllable sounds like a bunch of bull to me. 

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