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Am I the only user of 4?

3 is the one I've most often heard, but I suspect that there are as many variations as there are people using it!

1 seems to me to accord best with the spelling and the usual English stress in trisyllabic words.

 

Thanks guys, 

anyone else out there want to vote for their athame pronunciation? 

There are two pronunciations given in the ipa, the first one corresponds to option 3 but the second is more like option 1/2, no accentuation is given so it could be either. Personally I go for uh-Thah-may where Th is an aspirated T rather than th as in thing or breathe. Just to be contrary 😈

Seems OED has it as no.3 ?

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/athame as

I've heard it said similarly perhaps with a bit less emphasis on the "ee"  at the end....

Best 

ED

Edited Wednesday at 04:38 PM by Earthdragon
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Ok I now NEED to pronounce athame.

its for an audio book I'm narrating. 

Summing up suggested pronunciations from this thread as I understand them we have (using capitals to show which syllable is stressed)

1: a THAR may

2: a tha MAY

3: a THEY mee

4: a THAR mee

Can you let me how you have heard it said so I can work out what is most common? Does anyone know of a YouTube video or podcast or anything they can link me to so I can hear it?

If the accent is the difference the character has a general south England accent.

🙂