Have you read the Amelia Peabody series by Elizabeth Peters? It's set in the 19th century, a woman Egyptian archaeologist/detective and her family. Books are set in London and Egypt. I quite like them.

I liked the first fifty-seven. After that reading new ones grew a bit redundant.

t /Rhetorical Exaggeration

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I liked the first fifty-seven. After that reading new ones grew a bit redundant.

I've read four or five of them. Out of order, of course, which isn't a big deal. Happens a lot with series. "Elizabeth Peters" also writes romance novels under the name Barbara Michaels, and I think that she has another pseudonym as well.

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i (put those italics back in place!)

Thanks Kate! I was wondering. It's an unusual experience for me, the usually prolific reader, to know the sound of a word before I know the look of the word. Signed, the person who was certain "segue" was pronounced "seg-goo" from reading it for many years without having heard it spoken, and many other similar examples. I learned at a very early age to look up words and their etymology, but I tended to skip over sounding out pronunciation!

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I learned at a very early age to look up words and their etymology, but I tended to skip over sounding out pronunciation!

One of the nice feature of online dictionaries is the pronounciation button, where you can hear the word properly pronounced.

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I had a very embarrassing incident with the word facade in 7th grade or so....

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"fuckedy?" Hee. My downfall was chaos. Which I pronounced, "chowse."

I still say "munciple" in my head, only just managing to rearrange it to municiple before it hits audible.

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"fuckedy?"

nope, "fa-Kade"

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My downfall was chaos. Which I pronounced, "chowse."

I said it "chay-ous"

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I used to think "draught" was a totally different word than "draft."

Until I was about 18 or so. No, really.

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cha-ose. Long O.

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