Sahuagin posted...
saying tin-ITE-is seems to be an expectation that a medical issue would end in -itis, meaning inflammation, but this doesn't have anything to do with inflammation. it's definitely supposed to be TIN-it-us, apart from that confusion.
Again, it's both. Most dictionaries both online and off cite either as valid. And like I pointed out, most of the PSAs put out by actual medical organizations in the US don't use it the way you're arguing in favor of.
You're also kind of forcing the pronunciation of "tin-ITE-is" to emphasis the "-itis" to try and prove your point, but I'd say people who pronounce it that way could just as easily be leaning more towards "tin-EYE-tus", both pushing the t to the third syllable and pronouncing the word exactly the way it's spelled ("-itus"). And "itus" has nothing to do with inflammation or disease.
Like it or not, it's kind of a toe-may-toe/toe-mah-toe sort of situation.
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