Talk:amphitheatre

2005 comment

I think you mean AMPHITHEATER, Jeff, unless there is another kind of amphitheatre in GB ;-) "AJ" --HiFlyer 20:55, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Pronunciation

Some pronunciations:
UK (talking, in documentaries and tours):

• 0:46 /-m.fi-/
• 0:58 /-m.fi-/
• 0:21 /-m.fi-/
• 0:12 /-m.fi-/
• 0:26 and 0:26 /-m.fɪ-/ (someone who seems British announcing British performers at the Gorge Amphitheatre [sic] in the US)

US (rapping):

• 0:51 /-m.pə-/
• 2:03 /-m.pə-/
• 3:33 /-m.pɪ-/
• 3:02 /-m.pɪ-/

US (talking, in documentaries, news, etc):

• 0:44 and again at 0:46 /ˈæm.pəˌθi.e.tɚ/ (about the Red Rocks Amphitheatre [sic] in Colorado)
• [1] (a US newscaster saying the word several times, but unclearly)

Australia:

• 1:04 (an Australian MP seeming to say /-m.pi-/)
• 0:36 /-m.fi-/

Canada:

• 0:09 /-m.pɪ-/
• 0:01 /-m.fə-/
• 0:27 /-m.fə-/, but at 0:36 and 0:43 another speaker seems to say /-m.pə-/ but unclearly

Ireland:

• 6:28 /-m.fi-/ by Michael D. Higgins, who also uses /f/ earlier in the speech when saying the word in Irish

How is this pronounced elsewhere? Do any British speakers also use /p/? - -sche (discuss) 22:54, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

For more, see Wiktionary:Tea room/2019/May#amphitheatre_/_amphitheater. - -sche (discuss) 19:12, 23 May 2019 (UTC)

Possible missing sense

Chambers 1908 also has "anything like an amphitheatre in form". A bit vague, I know. What things of this shape would be described by this word and are not covered by our current entry, I wonder. Equinox ◑ 22:01, 16 February 2020 (UTC)