The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 28, July 11, 2004, Article 12

THE  PRONUNCIATION OF FECIT

  Jess Gaylor writes: "I thought I would confuse the issue with
  the word fecit  - why don't we just call it a fatchit and not
  confuse laymen as myself?"

  Dick Johnson writes: " I like criticism.  Thanks to Ron Ambler,
  Ken Berger and Martin Purdy for your comments in regard to
  my item on the correct pronunciation of ?fecit,? the Latin word
  found on medals in full or, more often, abbreviated in as many
  ways as you can cut up the word.

  I learn from your comments.  (Always amazed at E-Sylum
  readers? total knowledge!)  I took for my authority Webster?s
  Unabridged Third Edition (the one that weighs eleven pounds
  and is missing its spine from 50 year?s overuse).  It revealed to
  me the FEE-sit pronunciation. My Oxford Abridged and
  Cassell?s Latin dictionaries were no help whatsoever. Thus I
  thought this was the only English pronunciation.

  FAY-chit does sound better, as all three of my critics pointed
  out, than FEE-sit. I will note both in future writing. (Sorry,
  Martin, I didn?t get the joke of the British comedy skit. You
  got a better funny?)

  [I believe the mispronounced word was "alibi" -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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