Travellers are often advised to refer to Timatic for visa information (or to ask airline staff to check). However, what is the correct pronunciation of Timatic? Is it approx Tim-a-tick, or Tie-matic (to rhyme with automatic)? Or is it something else?
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3Presumably, people pronounce it differently depending on their accents, just like directed or divergent.– phoogCommented Nov 30, 2017 at 21:00
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"- matic" is an American marketingism. It's just "tih - matic", like automatic or 1000 other "-matic" brand names.– FattieCommented Apr 23, 2018 at 0:24
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Referring to IATAtv YouTube the first syllable is pronounced as a 'tem' not 'time'. Hence the word would sound like:
Tem a tik
You can listen to it at forvo as well.
You can hear the presumably IATA preferred pronunciation in this video:
te-matic as opposed to tea-matic or tie-matic. Like Timothy, or Timone from the Lion King.
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2For those who can't watch the video (it's hosted on Youtube), it's close to Tie-matic, but with a short vowel in Tie, sometimes closer to Ta than Ti. A direct link to the video is [ youtu.be/eroJZdDQXP0 ]– CSMCommented Nov 30, 2017 at 20:15
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@jpatokal What do you mean? It's pronounced consistently in the video. At least, I didn't notice a difference.– DTRTCommented Nov 30, 2017 at 20:30
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9@Johns-305 Videos come and videos go, but Travel.SE is forever, so please put the answer in the answer ;) Commented Nov 30, 2017 at 22:43
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Interestingly, for some speakers of English pen and pin sound similar but not for all. I could not imagine tim(atic) being pronounced tem(atic) and @CSM indicates it is rather like tim (insstead of time). Commented Dec 1, 2017 at 13:06
It sounds like Tim-a-tick to me, and this is also how I pronounce it. Never caused any difficulties.
answered Nov 30, 2017 at 20:18
