AI-GEOSTATS: Pronunciation of "Kriging"

[Marcus Schneider]

Thanks for all your answers (N=39) !!!   It seems that I was not the only one who was not sure about the "right" pronunciation. Most of you say "Kriging" with long I and hard G (34/87%). There are two exceptions: 1. France: they created their own word "krigeage" and 2. UK: all three answers from the UK voted for a G like "prodigy".   Some interesting answers are attached.   Thanks, Marcus   ------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Marcus   Option a, Kriging was named by Matheron in honour of Danie Krige. In South Africa Krige is pronounced with a hard g, very guttural (get hold of a German/ Dutch speaker and ask them to pronounce it).   In terms of country.. South Africa, Johannesburg and work on a Witwatersrand gold mine, approximately 50Km to the west of Johannesburg (the town is called Carletonville). M. Burnett Ore Reserve Manager Elandskraal Production Unit 1 (Deelkraal) Tel. 018 785 6625 ------------------------------------------------------------- This is what I think: It depends!   (1) In USA, Kriging is said  with a G like in "orGanize" (2) In Euorpe (most likely), it is pronounced with a normal G like in "Geometry".   In Other countries of the world, it is said according to one of the above 2 conventions, based on whatever (European or American) influnece more in their education or in GEO-business activities. In our geostatistical work, I say it as (1) above.   Thanks, Sulaiman AlBassam   Dhahran- Saudi Arabia e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------- Marcus, I pronounce it with a hard G as in "organize". I work for the European Commission's Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy. The employees come from all Member States and a few other countries (e.g. USA, Canada), so we have an interesting sample to draw from. The only way I have heard kriging pronounced here is with a hard G.   Best regards, Tore Tollefsen __________________ Tore Tollefsen European Commission - Joint Research Centre Institute for Environment and Sustainability TP 321 I-21020 Ispra (VA) Italy Tel: +39 0332 785423 Fax: +39 0332 785466 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.jrc.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------- In France, the word "krigeage" has been forged, and is the translation of "kriging". In the french pronounciation, both "g" pronounce _here_ similarly, a soft sound between the 'y' of "young" and the 'dj' of "June".   Krigeage can therefore be decomposed as :   . "kree-", like in "cryptic" ;   . "-'j'a-", like in "jar" without the beginning 'd' ; and   . "-'j'", somehow like in the first phonem of "judge", still without the opening 'd' ! So, my natural tendancy for the english pronounciation is... was choice "b)", like in "prodigy". However, I now use to pronounce it like in "a)", with the same hard "g" we also have in french ("grand" = "great"), essentially because most english people I met and discussed with about that, used to pronounce it this way ! (But if general agreement pushes toward that, I am ready to change the way I pronounce it :-) ). By the way, I would be happy to know how South Africans used to say Danie Krige ! Yours sincerely --Éric Lewin +=[ Éric LEWIN <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tél: (33/0)4 76 63 59 13 ]=+ +===[ Laboratoire de Géodynamique des Chaînes Alpines), Grenoble (France) ]===+ ------------------------------------------------------------- Morgen Marcus, > a) "Kriging" with G like in "organize" >     or > b) "Kriging" with G like in "prodigy"? My personal answer is a), but I may pronounce b) if surrounded by b)-pronouncing people. Auxiliary information can be found in the signature. Glückauf, Laurent                                  ````'''                                  (-) (-)                                    (_ -----------------------------OOOO-  _  -OOOO----------------- Laurent BERTINO Ecole des Mines de Paris          [EMAIL PROTECTED] Centre de Geostatistique          http://cg.ensmp.fr/~bertino 35, rue St Honore                 Fax : (33) 1 64 69 47 05 F-77305 Fontainebleau             Tel : (33) 1 64 69 47 77 France La page d'Aldona : http://aldona.trad.org ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Marcus Many english speakers pronounce the g in "kriging" as in prodigy which I think is incorrect and stems from a lack of exposure to Afrikaans (or Dutch).  Kriging comes from the surname Krige which is pronounced like the G in organise but with a more throaty "ggaa".  Strictly speaking the the G should sound a lot heavier than organise.      Note: with advice from  SPD.   Regards, Gavin (ex Cape Town/South Africa) ------------------------------------------------------------- Hello list members, It seems to me that the "Kriging" pronunciation issue is a case of deterministic linguistic syntatic statistics. We can easily determine the true value of the "Krige" pronounciation, eliminating the outlier value "e" and adding a new data value "ing" or "en" that is more consistent with the linguistic objectives of the distribution makes the overall syntatic pronounciation distribution less peaked, and definitely more skewed. Implementing and interpreting these statistical processes should lead us closer to a consistent pronunciation of "Kriging". Regards, Shivanand. -------------------------------------------------------------