Wikipedia: Adobe

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Source: Project Guetenberg Encyclopedia Vol 1. Thereafter edited on Wikipedia.

Q Is this the author's own pronunciaton symbol scheme or one borrowed from the source encylopedia. In any case, I think if you use a pronunciation guide you should reference it. As it is, this pronunciation could be construed as a number of things, and therefore, close to useless...:-).. Our usual would be /a-doh'-bee/ I believe. Your worst nightmare

Source: Project Guetenberg Encyclopedia Vol 1. Thereafter edited on Wikipedia.

For the software company, see Adobe Systems

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ADOBE (pronounced a-do-be; also corrupted to dobie; from the Span. adobar, to plaster, traceable through Arabic to an Egyptian hieroglyph meaning ``brick''), a Spanish-American word for the sun-dried clay used by the Indians for building in some of the south-western states of the American Union, this method having been imported in the 16th century by Spaniards from Mexico, Peru, &c. A distinction is made between the smaller ``adobes,'' which are about the size of ordinary baked bricks, and the larger ``adobines,'' some of which are as much as from one to two yards long.

Adobe has come to mean a style of architecture popular in the dry, warm climes of North America. Cf. stucco?.

Source: Project Guetenberg Encyclopedia Vol 1. Thereafter edited on Wikipedia.

For the software company, see Adobe Systems

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