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In Greek mythology, Deimos / ˈ d aɪ m ɒ s / (Ancient Greek: Δεῖμος, lit. 'fear' [ 1 ] pronounced [dêːmos] ) is the personification of fear. [ 2 ] He is the son of Ares and Aphrodite , and the brother of Phobos .
Deimos (/ ˈ d aɪ m ə s /; systematic designation: Mars II) [11] is the smaller and outer of the two natural satellites of Mars, the other being Phobos. Deimos has a mean radius of 6.2 km (3.9 mi) and takes 30.3 hours to orbit Mars. [5] Deimos is 23,460 km (14,580 mi) from Mars, much farther than Mars's other moon, Phobos. [12]
Pronunciation of Ancient Greek in French secondary schools is based on Erasmian pronunciation, but it is modified to match the phonetics and even, in the case of αυ and ευ, the orthography of French. Vowel length distinction, geminate consonants and pitch accent are discarded completely, which matches the current phonology of Standard French.
The English Pronouncing Dictionary (EPD) was created by the British phonetician Daniel Jones and was first published in 1917. [1] It originally comprised over 50,000 headwords listed in their spelling form, each of which was given one or more pronunciations transcribed using a set of phonemic symbols based on a standard accent.
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The motions of Phobos and Deimos would appear very different from that of Earth's Moon. Speedy Phobos rises in the west, sets in the east, and rises again in just eleven hours, while Deimos, being only just outside synchronous orbit, rises as expected in the east but very slowly. Despite its 30-hour orbit, it takes 2.7 days to set in the west ...
The article had DAY-mus. This is an attempt at the classical Greek pronunciation; the English equivalent is DYE-mus or perhaps DEE-mus. Most refs, including Geyley's 1893 (1911, 1939) Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art and Zimmerman's 1964 Dictionary of Classical Mythology have the former; a few, such as Tripp's Meridian Handbook of Classical Mythology have the latter.
CMUdict provides a mapping orthographic/phonetic for English words in their North American pronunciations. It is commonly used to generate representations for speech recognition (ASR), e.g. the CMU Sphinx system, and speech synthesis (TTS), e.g. the Festival system.