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PRONOUNCING "SYNECDOCHE"
Variety’s Mike Jones has posted this funny video about the pronunciation of Charlie Kaufman’s latest, due to screen in Cannes on Friday.
For the record, and from Wikipedia:
Synecdoche (pronounced /s??n?kd?k?/) is a figure of speech in which:
a term denoting a part of something is used to refer to the whole thing, or
a term denoting a thing (a “whole”) is used to refer to part of it, or
a term denoting a specific class of thing is used to refer to a larger, more general class, or
a term denoting a general class of thing is used to refer to a smaller, more specific class, or
a term denoting a material is used to refer to an object composed of that material.
Synecdoche is closely related to metonymy (the figure of speech in which a term denoting one thing is used to refer to a related thing); indeed, synecdoche is often considered a subclass of metonymy. It is more distantly related to other figures of speech, such as metaphor.
