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Trebla

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Just out of curiosity, how do you personally pronounce the word 'locus'?

Myself, many of my friends and most of my school teachers pronounce it as lock-cus. My teachers have said that it should be pronounced this way.

Teachers from other schools and many students I've tutored pronounce it as low-cus. I've even had a few of them argue that this is 'right' way to say it.
 
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Just out of curiosity, how do you personally pronounce the word 'locus'?

Myself, many of my friends and most of my school teachers pronounce it as lock-cus. My teachers have said that it should be pronounced this way.

Teachers from other schools and many students I've tutored pronounce it as low-cus. I've even had a few of them argue that this is 'right' way to say it.
I used to say low-cus, but but was laughed at, now i say and believe that it's lock-cus.
 

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I used to say low-cus, but but was laughed at, now i say and believe that it's lock-cus.
Haha this. My teacher always used to laugh at me for saying low-cus :(
 

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I know it's pronounced lock-cus, but I still say low-cus because it rolls of the tongue better imo.
 

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A teacher I had once called a student named Lucas, "Low-cus" lol.
 

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Depends on who I'm talking to...so I don't get ridiculed too heavily. :p
 

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Back to locus.

So far I only know of Australians using - Lock-us.

I believe it may have originated because of mathsonline and teachers who have really Australian accents that may find it difficult to pronounce "low-cus"
 

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This is interesting, in latin i have only ever heard it pronounced 'low-cus'
 

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