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We recently had an edit by User:Smurrayinchester to add "pronounced /ˈɛmpɒks/ EM-poks," to the lead sentence. I reverted with summary "Per MOS:LEADPRON only necessary if not apparent from spelling, and "mpox" was apparently chosen because the pronunciation should be straightforward". The pronouciation has been restored by User:Ost316 with summary "with all due respect to those who chose the name, the pronunciation is not apparent, as it is an uncommon letter combination for starting a word and does not separate the "m" from the "pox". Some may think it's pronounced more like MMMBop".
The dictionaries at Dictionary.com and Collins agree with the above proposed text, but Websters does not. I've not found the term at other dictionaries. I don't know how to pronounce MMMBop but if Ost316 is suggesting mpox might be pronounced without the "e" and just a "mm" sound, then my answer is then: so what. This is a neologism. It will be pronounced how it gets pronounced. I think their suggestion of a "wrong" pronunciation is unlikely, for the reason that "MMMBop" has multiple "m"s to emphasise the mm sound.
We aren't a dictionary. The guidance at MOS:LEADPRON is that the correct (or a reasonable) pronunciation has to be obscure to the unfamiliar reader. It has to be something a reader couldn't have worked out from the spelling. It is not that there are several options, given a spelling, and Wikipedia is here to insist on only one. It is that the reader is most likely to stumble. For example, we don't tell the reader how to pronounce Colin (given name) except for the American politician Colin Powell who had an unusual pronunciation. That "Colin" could be pronounced /ˈkoʊlɪn/ KOHL-in doesn't mean an English reader is likely to do so and misunderstood if they did so (people without English as a first language often do pronounce "Colin" in all sorts of ways, but we don't add pronunciation guides to help Spanish or Chinese readers improve their English accent).
I think here, the reader is either unlikely to so mispronounce mpox that nobody will understand what they are saying or even think they are wrong, rather than just different. Whether they drop the "e" or change the o vowel sound is pretty unimportant, and getting on for the sort of variation we might get in English naturally.
I think we should remove the pronunciation in order to keep the lead sentence, like most Wikipedia articles, focused on information. -- Colin° Talk 07:15, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
Many of our sources have been updated in the light of research findings over the last few months, which were triggered by the 2022 mpox outbreak. However much of the article as it currently stands reflects the state of knowledge prior to the outbreak (patchy at best!). In some cases we refer to archived versions of sources which have changed enormously in their current version.
This will require a considerable amount of work to bring the article up to date. Bob ( talk) 16:51, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
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We recently had an edit by User:Smurrayinchester to add "pronounced /ˈɛmpɒks/ EM-poks," to the lead sentence. I reverted with summary "Per MOS:LEADPRON only necessary if not apparent from spelling, and "mpox" was apparently chosen because the pronunciation should be straightforward". The pronouciation has been restored by User:Ost316 with summary "with all due respect to those who chose the name, the pronunciation is not apparent, as it is an uncommon letter combination for starting a word and does not separate the "m" from the "pox". Some may think it's pronounced more like MMMBop".
The dictionaries at Dictionary.com and Collins agree with the above proposed text, but Websters does not. I've not found the term at other dictionaries. I don't know how to pronounce MMMBop but if Ost316 is suggesting mpox might be pronounced without the "e" and just a "mm" sound, then my answer is then: so what. This is a neologism. It will be pronounced how it gets pronounced. I think their suggestion of a "wrong" pronunciation is unlikely, for the reason that "MMMBop" has multiple "m"s to emphasise the mm sound.
We aren't a dictionary. The guidance at MOS:LEADPRON is that the correct (or a reasonable) pronunciation has to be obscure to the unfamiliar reader. It has to be something a reader couldn't have worked out from the spelling. It is not that there are several options, given a spelling, and Wikipedia is here to insist on only one. It is that the reader is most likely to stumble. For example, we don't tell the reader how to pronounce Colin (given name) except for the American politician Colin Powell who had an unusual pronunciation. That "Colin" could be pronounced /ˈkoʊlɪn/ KOHL-in doesn't mean an English reader is likely to do so and misunderstood if they did so (people without English as a first language often do pronounce "Colin" in all sorts of ways, but we don't add pronunciation guides to help Spanish or Chinese readers improve their English accent).
I think here, the reader is either unlikely to so mispronounce mpox that nobody will understand what they are saying or even think they are wrong, rather than just different. Whether they drop the "e" or change the o vowel sound is pretty unimportant, and getting on for the sort of variation we might get in English naturally.
I think we should remove the pronunciation in order to keep the lead sentence, like most Wikipedia articles, focused on information. -- Colin° Talk 07:15, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
Many of our sources have been updated in the light of research findings over the last few months, which were triggered by the 2022 mpox outbreak. However much of the article as it currently stands reflects the state of knowledge prior to the outbreak (patchy at best!). In some cases we refer to archived versions of sources which have changed enormously in their current version.
This will require a considerable amount of work to bring the article up to date. Bob ( talk) 16:51, 21 May 2023 (UTC)