Correct pronunciation of "Pilaster" 4

[SRO]

I won't bore everyone with the pointless story of how this came up but someone told me I was pronouncing pilaster incorrectly today. I've only ever heard it pronounced one way and that is "PIE-LASTER" she was telling me that another engineer "corrected" her when she pronounced it this way and told her the proper way to pronounce it is "PILL-ISTER". Has anyone ever heard it pronounced this way?

 

[BridgeSmith]

I've heard it pronounced both ways. I never thought it mattered, certainly not enough to bother correcting someone, even if I did know they were wrong.

I have tried to correct people when they use "Township" incorrectly, by saying "Township 31 North", etc. It's Tier 31 North. It's a tier and range system. A township is the 6 mile by 6 mile square bounded by the tier lines and the range lines. It's a losing battle, though.

 

[hokie66]

I think the long I is incorrect, but the rest is the difference between British and American. Brits make it "ister", while Americans make it "aster" like the flower. Being an American living in Australia, I just stay confused.

 

[dik]

I've only heard it as pile aster...

Dik

 

[dhengr]

It’s Pi-laster, not 3.14159-laster. It might be cement filled chimley blocks, those bumpy outies in the masonary block wall, or those whatcha-ma-call-its under the cement beams. So, what’s all the fuss, as long as they are strengthy enough?

 

[cvg]

it might be in a tier and range but a section or other parcel of land is described as being "in" a "township and range". good luck convincing anyone to describe townships differently

 

[IRstuff]

in the US, one would think it ought to be more like pil-laster

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[BridgeSmith]

I know, cvg. Learned it in surveying class, and at my summer job drafting at an engineering firm, their PLS with 20 years experience told me I was wrong. I found it in a book they had on the shelf there and showed him. He just shrugged, and that was the end of it.

 

[cvg]

hotrod
the gubmint website backs him up

https://nationalmap.gov/small_scale/a_plss.html

 

[Ron]

Pie-laster....not puhlaster! That's from the southern US where we pronounce everything incorrectly!

 

[fel3]

HotRod10…

Yes and no. From

https://nationalmap.gov/small_scale/a_plss.html

"Each township is identified with a township and range designation. Township designations indicate the location north or south of the baseline, and range designations indicate the location east or west of the Principal Meridian. For example, a township might be identified as Township 7 North, Range 2 West, which would mean that it was in the 7th tier of townships north of a baseline, and in the 2nd column of townships west of a principal meridian. A legal land description of a section includes the State, Principal Meridian name, Township and Range designations with directions, and the section number: Nebraska, Sixth Principal Meridian T7N, R2W, sec5."

And (under Definitions): "Township—An approximately 6-mile square area of land, containing 36 sections. Also, a horizontal row of townships in the PLSS."

So, "township" has two definitons:
[1] A 6 mile (nominal) by 6 mile (nominal) square (nominal) of 36 (nominal) sections.
[2] A tier of four (nominal) townships.

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[jittles]

I'll throw a vote for pie-laster. Only way I've ever heard it here in the far northwest and working in the southwest.

 

[JStephen]

All I've ever heard is PIE-laster.
But then again, one foreman I used to deal with would discuss "col-yums".
And I asked another foreman how it was going and he said "Oh, just hangin' arn."
So I wouldn't vouch for PIE-laster being correct and proper, either.

 

[IRstuff]

Most dictionaries says puh-laster, although there is one that says pul-layster

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[jimstructures]

Webster's Collegiate has pi-laster and that is the way the old concrete guys said it, but they also talked about footers as well. So who knows.

Jim H

 

[IRstuff]

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pilaster

pronounces it otherwise

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[Ussuri]

UK person here, PILL-ASTER

 

[JStephen]

IRstuff, that link has two pronunciations, the second is the PIE-laster.

 

[Ussuri]

It derives from the word 'Pillar'. Does anyone call a 'PILL-AR' at 'PIE-LAR'

 

[D_UK]

Only people who are very Posh!