Talk:amphitheatre

2005 comment
I think you mean AMPHITHEATER, Jeff, unless there is another kind of amphitheatre in GB ;-) "AJ" --HiFlyer 20:55, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Pronunciation
Some pronunciations: UK (talking, in documentaries and tours): US (rapping): US (talking, in documentaries, news, etc): Australia: Canada: Ireland: How is this pronounced elsewhere? Do any British speakers also use /p/? - -sche (discuss) 22:54, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
 * 0:46 /-m.fi-/
 * 0:58 /-m.fi-/
 * 0:21 /-m.fi-/
 * 0:12 /-m.fi-/
 * 0:26 and 0:26 /-m.fɪ-/ (someone who seems British announcing British performers at the Gorge Amphitheatre [sic] in the US)
 * 0:51 /-m.pə-/
 * 2:03 /-m.pə-/
 * 3:33 /-m.pɪ-/
 * 3:02 /-m.pɪ-/
 * 0:44 and again at 0:46 /ˈæm.pəˌθi.e.tɚ/ (about the Red Rocks Amphitheatre [sic] in Colorado)
 * (a US newscaster saying the word several times, but unclearly)
 * 1:04 (an Australian MP seeming to say /-m.pi-/)
 * 0:36 /-m.fi-/
 * 0:09 /-m.pɪ-/
 * 0:01 /-m.fə-/
 * 0:27 /-m.fə-/, but at 0:36 and 0:43 another speaker seems to say /-m.pə-/ but unclearly
 * 6:28 /-m.fi-/ by, who also uses /f/ earlier in the speech when saying the word in Irish
 * For more, see Tea room/2019/May. - -sche (discuss) 19:12, 23 May 2019 (UTC)

Possible missing sense
Chambers 1908 also has "anything like an amphitheatre in form". A bit vague, I know. What things of this shape would be described by this word and are not covered by our current entry, I wonder. Equinox ◑ 22:01, 16 February 2020 (UTC)