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Mayjose.

Is it right? Apparently not. Do I care? Not really. Then again the rural north United States has caused me to pronounce a great many number of English words incorrectly.

 Ignatius wrote:
Mayjose.

Is it right? Apparently not. Do I care? Not really. Then again the rural north United States has caused me to pronounce a great many number of English words incorrectly.

Here ya go:

"Wikipedia es

EtymologyEdit
From Latin magus, from Ancient Greek μάγος (mágos).

PronunciationEdit
IPA(key): /ˈma.ɣo/
AdjectiveEdit
mago m (feminine maga, masculine plural magos, feminine plural magas)

magician (attributive)
NounEdit
mago m (plural magos)

magician, sorcerer
Magi
Related termsEdit
magia
mágico
Read in another language"

i say it like Ma-gus.

as in maggot, but with a Gus on the end.

I imagine that rather than the root being from Iranian into Greek it might be from a common Indo-European root. For example the word for a country dweller was paighan in Middle Persian which is very similar to paganus in Latinhich has the same meaning. This is the root word for pagan in modern English. If you look for a Persian variant it would be something very similar to 'maygos' in sound. A magos was an ancient Zoroastrian priest.

Soft "g" like "j."

It's always made the most sense to me: Magic (Majic), Magician (majician) becomes: Mage (Maje), Magus (Majus) and Magos (Majos).

 Jimsolo wrote:
I've literally never heard it done with a soft g.

Is that a non American thing?

 docdoom77 wrote:
Soft "g" like "j."

It's always made the most sense to me: Magic (Majic), Magician (majician) becomes: Mage (Maje), Magus (Majus) and Magos (Majos).

No, I believe it has nothing to do with being American or not, since Doc is American. Personally, I'm on the Mah-Gos side.

Most people i know pronounce it may-gos, although i've seen some people do may-jos, frankly you can pronounce it whatever way you wish, GW hasn't come out and told us how to pronounce it.

Mah, as in magpie, and gos, as in ghost.