Tyrant and Tyranical I pronounce with the hard Y, Tyranny and Tyranid I pronounce with the soft Y.
It could be a matter of local dialect. Tyranny and Tyranid are very similar sounding words. Ifyou pronounce Tyranny one way you'll pronounce Tyranid that way, ans to me Tie-ranny and Tie-ranid just sound...awkward or bulky. I can't really put a finger on it. It just sounds smoother my way.
Likewise, offisseeo rolls off my tongue more smoothy than offikeeo
And when I'm hurt, I want to see a 'Fissishon', rather than a 'Fissikion' and Albert Einstein was a 'Fisseesist' and not a 'Fissikist'
May not be 'proper' but it sounds better to me ;-)
I think the root of Tyranid is Tyranosaurus rather than tyrant directly (Rick Priestly used to go on about it a lot), so you should say them the same. If you're a Brit, you usually say 'tie-rant' but you say 'tirr-any', and pronounce 'tirr-ano-saurus' the same. I believe most Americans also say 'tie-rant' and 'tirr-any', but say 'tie-ran-o-saurus'. Make of that what you will.
@ Pyro (or is it 'peero'?) I share your pain. Still, 'High Gothic' isn't supposed to be an analogy for
Classical Latin, it's an analogy for
Dog Latin. And most Cardinals would say 'patchay' not 'pahkey', 'oefeesyo' not 'offikio', and 'Tshayzar' not 'Kaiser'. We just have to grit our teeth and bear it, I suppose...
@ Galahad... physics is
Greek, dude. :wink:
BTW, I've always (always? on the like 6 occasions I've ever said it) said K-tan. Didn't know it was Greek too... (it's not really "Stan" is it? Sounds far less scary... "I'm 82 million, you know... young folks today, they don't know they're born... not like in my day, when everything was in black and white..." etc etc)