Weekly Fallen London Questions, 19/12/2022

[phryne]

@alexanderfeld

How should “lacre” be pronounced?

This has been discussed before:

A Guide to Lacre?

Thanks Sara! And thanks zbr308 for pointing out the lacrima connection! [quote=Sara Hysaro][quote=zbr308]Seeing it almost certainly has something to do with lacrima (latin for tears, we are probably more familiar with lacrimosa, latin for weeping), I’d guess it has a similar sound, &quotlakri&quot maybe. edited by zbr308 on 12/9/2014[/quote] I went and dug up the tweet I recalled explaining how to pronounce it. It is acre with an l. It stuck with me mostly because when lacre was first intr…

@alexis

I say lei-ker, to rhyme with nacre. But everyone else at Failbetter thinks it should be lacker. But neh the neh neh it was my word neh

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