* How the hell do you pronounce six syllable words? Sometimes it feels like you need to emphasise two of the syllables but you can also emphasise just one. Since anapologia is a made-up word, it can be pronounced any way you like.

Apologia is a real word and the recommended pronunciation is:

apologia <≈ [a • puh • LOW • jee • uh] like "ApollOnia"

so to preserve the root of anapologia we could preserve the pronunciation of that part of the word so:

anapologia <≈ [an • uh • puh • LOW • jee • uh] homorhythmic with "anaphylAxia"

Of the ways of emphasised two syllable, these are my favourites:

1. emphasis on the 1st and 4th syllables so:

anapologia <≈ [AN • uh • puh • LOW • jee • uh] to rhyme with "ANna the SLOW eater"  or

2. emphasis on the 2nd and 5th syllables so:

anapologia <≈ [an • AP • uh • luh • JEE • uh] to rhyme with "an APPle for MIa"

Where the "uh" represents the schwa ⟨ə⟩ sound and by "<≈" I mean "is spoken as".

Pick one or make up your own. Just remember it means "unapologetics" - another made-up word.

For comments or questions email: Perdix Partridge perdix@anapologia.templetap.com 

or Ana Pologia anapologia@anapologia.templetap.com