https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=Sapphie 2026-04-20T18:27:19Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.30.0 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1082:_Geology&diff=10894 2012-08-29T00:58:45Z

<p>Sapphie: </p> <hr /> <div>Actually, in the UK &quot;gneiss&quot; is pronounced exactly &quot;nice&quot;, so it fits even better there.<br /> :If Wikipedia's phonitic guide is any authority, it's also said that way in the US (hover-text: 'n' as in 'nigh', long 'i' in 'bide', 's' as in 'sigh')... it doesn't make any distinctions between regions. -- [[User:IronyChef|IronyChef]] ([[User talk:IronyChef|talk]]) 04:51, 18 August 2012 (UTC)<br /> ::Indeed. American geologists also pronounce it &quot;nice&quot; [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]] ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 18:06, 20 August 2012 (UTC)<br /> <br /> According to my geologist father, 'gneiss' is pronounced as &quot;nice&quot; and 'butte' as &quot;beaut.&quot; He also says that buttes are almost never gneiss: gneiss is a metamorphic rock, and buttes are almost always formed from sedimentary rocks. (Gneiss can form bornhardts, which are also bumps of rock, but form by a different process and don't look very similar.)[[User:Sapphie| Variables won&amp;#39;t, constants aren&amp;#39;t. (Osborn&amp;#39;s Law)]] ([[User talk:Sapphie|talk]]) 00:58, 29 August 2012 (UTC)</div>

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