Talk:Winding stick
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I am wondering what people's opinon's are of the pronunciation of the word "winding" when in reference to "winding sticks"?
- Here in the US, (I'm in the northeast) we say it with a long I, like wind as in "I wind the string on a ball". ("w-eye-ding sticks") I have never once heard it with a short I, like wind as in "the wind blows from the west today". --Maxelrod (talk) 23:43, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
- The traditional and more common pronunciation is with the short I, as in "wind in my sales". I have rarely heard the "w-eye-ding" pronunciation, typically from woodworkers who are not hand tool users. The definitive reference is Moxon.
--decolores9 (talk) 13 January 2014 (UTC)
- Joseph Moxon, in "Mechanick exercises, or the doctrine of handy works" (London: Moxon, 1683) -- which I guess is the book Decolores9 calls the definitive reference -- does not mention winding sticks, so I don't think he helps us here. So, what is the evidence that the "wind in my sails" pronunciation is traditional and more common? My grandfather (who completed his apprenticeship as a cabinetmaker in Australia before the First World War) used the "wind the clock" pronunciation.
Peter Marquis-Kyle (talk) 12:48, 16 April 2020 (UTC)