To start with I would like to say that I do not mean to offend in the following statement:

"Osiris II. You need not lecture me on the basics of Hieroglyphic alphabetic structure. I do study them and attend lectures each month on them. Most biliteral and triliteral glyphs contain aleph and yodh, such as ka, ba and sa. At least Neb-Maat-Re was arguing constructively rather than trying to tear down my argument.

Firstly I would like to say that any error would by on my part, not on the part of the Egyptologists. I presume that Dr. Aidan Dodson and Dr. Nigel Strudwick know far more on the subject than anyone else here, and I have had the pleasure of speaking to both of them.
I am sorry if I made myself unclear. I assure you that these pronunciations are used commonly. However it is difficult to explain them over the Internet for obvious reasons. I should remind all of you that there are no 'correct' pronunciations, and these are only the ones that I have been advised on by experts.

I shall quote the oxford English Dictionary in my plight to verify my answers:

Thoth is indeed one syllable. The modern spelling and pronunciation is derived from Classical Greek, which has no 'th' sound in the same sense as the way that we use it (Thursday, third etc.). The aspirated consonant theta of ancient Greek is pronounced as a more throaty 't' (as in anT-Hill). The OED recommends the pronunciation 'Thoath' for Thoth. Like Toawth. To rhyme in a single syllable with oath and both. The phonetic representation in the OED is 'taut'.

As for Maat- I do know that it is not spelt with an 'r'. However, when spoken it contains a long 'ah' sound. In English the spoken inflection is such that diphthongs are often lost at the end of words. For example, the British pronounce the word 'tea' with a slight 'y' sound at the end. With the sound 'ah' (try saying it!), the diaphonic syllabite 'r' appears- we say 'arrrh', not 'aaa-h'. Thus Ma'at, even though it contains no 'r's, is pronounced as Mahrt. Some more strict Egyptologists say Ma'at, with a slight stutter. The OED advises as above 'ma'artt'. Two semi-syllables there, or at least one split by a stutter. Saying 'Moo-at' is most definetely wrong.

Hathor is the same. It comes from the Ancient Greek, and is spelt by Herodotus as 'at 'op (rough breathing over the alpha)- two separate words that would clearly be pronounced as Hat-horr. This was more or less verified by what Neb-Maat-Re said, although I forgot to mention that these two syllables are slurred to form 'Haart-her' or 'Haart-hor'. Confusion over omegas and omicrons in the texts could result in either '-hor' or '-hoor'. The key thing here is that the split is at Hat-hor, rather than Hath-or. (Foremost= hat, Hor= horus) Nobody pronounces Horus as 'Herrus' or 'Hoorus'. (I believe! lol). Nobody says Hath-shepsut either I believe. You should by looking at parts of other words say the 'Hat' of Hatshepsut, combined with the 'Hor' of Horus. Hat-hor. If spelt out as it is said it becomes 'Haahrt-Horr'. Undisputably, surely.

In all these circumstances it is the aleph (the little picture of the vulture Osiris II!) that has caused the problem. Turn to page 27 of G.E.G. It advises that you pronounce aleph as a glottal stop (hence Ma'at- with the little hiccup) as in German words that begin with a vowel. Take the example in the book- der Adler. You would say 'der Aahrdler', passing through the 'r' sound (it is almost impossible not to), not der Aedler. Infact the American accent stresses the non-existent 'r's even further. Like the word 'manor' for example. The British pronounce it a 'mana', but americans would usually say 'ma-norr'.

I am sorry that I got so defensive, but I am sure that Egyptologists like Dr. Dodson and Dr. Strudwick would not devote their entire life to Egyptology without knowing how to pronounce a god's name. It was most certainly my poor explanitory skills that confused you, not the Egyptologists.

Do you agree now- or I am still wrong? If you think that I am still completely wrong then I'll be gracious and accept my error, I just think that my sources are probably quite accurate. Either way I can sort this out in three weeks time at the next lecture on Queen's Road. Sorry."

I found this and thought is may be interesting to especially those of you whom know what you are talking about:
http://www.friesian.com/egypt.htm

Also in reference to Thoth as God of the Moon:
http://waltm.net/thoth.htm

Again, hope you enjoy the post!

Yes, that site says stuff about aleph being pronounced as 'arrh'.

How do you say 'Maat' bel? Would you rhyme it with 'cart' (Maht) or 'hat' (Mat)?

I alway's say Ma'at in my mind as rhyming w/hat; but then what do I know. I am just an ancient relic here and still a worshiper of Thoth.

After doing all of this research, I am beginning to think that all of these pronunciations are incorrect in regard to convention!

If Aleph is an 'uh' sound (gutteral swallow) and the other 'a' (the forearm) is pronounced as 'aiy' (as in the arabic 'ayn) then Ma'at should really be pronounced through modern convention as Muh-aiy.

I think that I'll just stick with 'Maht', and say it like they do on T.V. This argument really is quite pointless as modern convention is completely different from the original pronunciation (probably!).
For example the Egyptian king whose name is most accurately transcribed as "R?-mss" is known as "Rameses", even though cuneiform tablets that mention him suggest that a more accurate rendering with vowels would have been "Ri`amasesa".
In the wise words of the genius who was Sir Alan Gardiner:

It must never be forgotten that the vocalizations thus provided are purely artificial makeshifts and bear little or no relation, so far as the vowels are concerned, to the unknown original pronunciations as heard and spoken by the Egyptians themselves. [p. 28]

P.S Thoth is obviously god of the moon, who doubted it? As a baboon he almost always wears the lunar disk and crescent moon. He was shown as a baboon supposeedly because their serious expressions made them look wise.
Thoth is one of the coolest gods, but I still say Thoath (like 'oath') rather that Thoth (like 'goth'), as most Egyptologists on T.V say that, and so does the Oxford English Dictionary.

You can click into a recording of the sound of Ma_at at the site bel provided.

Sounds like someone is being choked.

It does!

I like your new signature Ramsekh- it is pretty cool!

Thanks.

All my quotes I get are fom books I've borrowed from my own high school library. I've made quite a few but they're for females. Gonna post em on my forum for anyone.

I lost my frames cuz my last computer have nearly 30 viruses so I couldn't get into any files. Lost everything, especially my websites. I need to edit everything and make new frames and sigs.

I've got quite a few quotes. Since this is Gods and Goddesses, who should I create a sig for?

I am drunk with my own success after creating my own geosite, and am posting everywhere to tell people about it. It has my latest composition on it:

Don't reply here though, reply in the Geosite voices, composition etc. thread or Meryetatum will gobble me up like Ammit!

Only if your heart is not pure.

He is from England, we're born impure! He is from Bristol though so he cant be that bad. Us Londoners are rotten to the core!

I see that. No, I'm kidding. Don't kill me!