How do you pronounce AEon's name?

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I have heard that you say AEon's last name like "flu." Does anyone know where I can get documentation of this?

-- Lucas McGregor (lucas@eni.net), March 23, 1999

Answers

Well, I always thought it was pronounced like the flux capacitor in back to the future...

-- Telemental (panaceag@lvcm.com), March 23, 1999.

Well, the show's characters pronounce it 'Flux', and the dictionary agrees with this. Basically, you're wrong.

-- Philip Mills (philip.mills@cableinet.co.uk), March 23, 1999.

aeon flux=eon flux read the interviews

-- angel briggand (poppi@bellsouth.net), March 25, 1999.

Strictly on the last name, I would say it's pronounced 'FluhX'. Being, as I am, in a Latin class this semester, I cracked the big Latin dictionary. 'Fluxus' is the participle form of the verb fluere, to flow, thus meaning a flow or a flowing. The first U is short, and the X is pronounced. Latin words never have silent letters, unless they've come to us through French.

I can't comment for sure on Aeon, since that's from Greek. Although if I saw that word in a Latin text it would be pronounced, 'I-on'...

-- Charlie Princeton (cmmartin@princeton.edu), March 26, 1999.


Wouldn't you just go by how Trevor Goodchild's pronunciation of her name, after all, he does eat, breathe and love(hate) Aeon...

-- Lisa Metzke (metzke@hotmail.com), April 24, 1999.


It's f l u x , like the flux capacitator in "back to the future"

-- Forsaken (rabid_wrestler@yahoo.com), October 21, 2003.

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