Succinct Success

By Daniel Miessler on December 2nd, 2007: Tagged as Language | Writing

I used to pronounce succinct as suh-sinked, i.e. without the hard first c. My friend Jason corrected me, saying it’s suck-sinked (seems vulgar, but it’s not).

This makes sense. If you’re ever in any doubt, try pronouncing success as suh-sess.

Yeah, not so much.:

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http://maxolasersquad.com/ Maxo

From dictionary.com:[suhk-singkt] I’m not sure where they get the g from. My wife and I had a disagreement on how to pronounce leisure. I said it [lezh-er], she insisted it was [leezh-er]. I said either where fine. Dictionary.com settled that one. At least I don’t say telly (for television.)
http://maxolasersquad.com/ Maxo

From dictionary.com:[suhk-singkt] I’m not sure where they get the g from. My wife and I had a disagreement on how to pronounce leisure. I said it [lezh-er], she insisted it was [leezh-er]. I said either where fine. Dictionary.com settled that one. At least I don’t say telly (for television.)
MD

More interesting IT & Security posts, less nitpicky bullshit =)
MD

More interesting IT & Security posts, less nitpicky bullshit =)
Paul

Nitpicky bullshit is fun! I can’t beeleeve I’ve been mispronouncing succinct incorrectly the whole time!LOl, Love learning something new. Success1 [səkˈses]!
Paul

Nitpicky bullshit is fun! I can’t beeleeve I’ve been mispronouncing succinct incorrectly the whole time!LOl, Love learning something new. Success1 [səkˈses]!
kundi

I think that k is a soft or silienced consonant. It’s like the way you pronounce the first t in “Wait Time”.
kundi

I think that k is a soft or silienced consonant. It’s like the way you pronounce the first t in “Wait Time”.
http://dmiessler.com/ Daniel Miessler

@Kundi

But as I said in the post, success is pronounced “suck-sess”, with the first c as a hard “k” sound. And that’s the same way succinct is pronounced, evidently.
http://dmiessler.com Daniel Miessler

@Kundi

But as I said in the post, success is pronounced “suck-sess”, with the first c as a hard “k” sound. And that’s the same way succinct is pronounced, evidently.

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