[audiotom]

Is it

Duh DAH luss

Or

DAH duh luss?


Greek origins. - Me thinks the later

[BobRex]

Traditional pronunciation (As I know it) would be either:

Dad uh lus

or

Dead uh lus

[srb]

Lou knows how he intends it to be pronounced, but the average consensus is

http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=daedalus&submit=Submit

http://www.memidex.com/daedalus

Steve

[Kenneth Patchen]

James Joyce included a Daedalus character, later shortened to Dedalus, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and in Ulysses. In recorded readings, Joyce can be heard pronouncing the name Daidalos 
 (Dh eh dh aa l aw s) in the Greek pronunciation. However, I had a professor who pronounced it Dee da lus
and he insisted that was the correct pronunciation.

[david12]

 I am with Kenneth on this one, dee-dal-us.  I think an Irish pronoiuciation of an ancient Greek word is getting us into deep waters.

[Daedalus Audio]

Lou knows how he intends it to be pronounced, but the average consensus is

http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=daedalus&submit=Submit

http://www.memidex.com/daedalus

Steve

Both pronunciations above are correct to my knowledge.

http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=daedalus&submit=Submit

When I came up with the idea for the company in '92 I was struggling to find a name.  One night I had this dream where I just saw the name printed, I woke up, wrote it on the pad by the bed and the next morning looked it up. I had no idea how to pronounce it but a friend of mine with a PHD in english lit told me "dead ah lus".  My understanding is that is the proper 'English" pronunciation whereas "dea dah lus" is the American pronunciation.

I still like the name but I have had to spell it and correct pronunciation thousands  of times over the years... oh well. 

thanks,
lou

[audiotom]

Thanks Lou for the edification

Is there a secret hand shake initiation?

[dB Cooper]

It's dead-ul-us, just like Lou says. I know this from watching the Mighty Hercules cartoon when I was a kid. Proof positive at 1:56!!! Case closed 

BTW, Daedalus was the bad guy but Lou's speakers are excellent. Don't know how to work that out...

[Ericus Rex]

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