GARTHWILSON wrote:
BTW, "piezo" is frequently mispronounced. It comes from the Greek work meaning "to bend," and with the Greek vowels, says "pee-eh-zo", not "pie-" (as in "apple pie"). Classical Greek had the "d" sound in front of the "z" sound, so "pee-Ed-zo" would be correct too. (Take if from our son whose undergraduate degree was in Greek and Hebrew, and got further education in it in his two masters' degrees.)
I've always butchered it as "pee-zo". Just plain easy to say, and I've never heard anyone pronounce it.