Thursday, July 31, 2008

filling out forms or filling them in?

One sound of summer that I identify purely with summer is the cicada's song. The reason I identify this sound with summer is that I only ever hear it on the hottest days of the summer.

I have no idea what these cicadas do during the other three seasons.

Dictionary.com provides two distinct pronounciation keys for cicada:
si-key-duh
si-kah-duh

I use the first, what do you use?

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

i've never even heard of it, so I can't say which way I pronounce it... ;P

phx said...

i always pronounced the first c as a hard c... ki-kay-duh

man i was way off.

Debstar said...

The second one.

Debstar said...

The second one.