Talk:biopic

I tend to pronounce this as /baɪˈɒpɪk/ (to rhyme with myopic) - is that just me? 81.142.107.230 16:47, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

It looks like it would rhyme with myopic, but it is composed differently. Biopic is bio + pic (BIOgraphical PICture). So that’s why it’s pronounced like BIO-pick. —Stephen ^(Talk) 16:04, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

i've heard others pronounce it that way, so it's definitely not just you, but I still think it's wrong. If such a pronunciation ever becomes standard we could say it comes from bio- + -opic, thus "seeing life", which is a believable etymology for what it means. Soap (talk) 17:44, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

This is the exact same etymology as ‘biopsy’, which is pronounced exactly the same as the ‘nonstandard’ pronunciation of ‘biopic’. Are we sure it is really nonstandard? Because I have never heard it the ‘standard’ way, which sounds wrong and awkward to me. Planetjanet (talk) 19:35, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

Yes, it's non-standard because biopic doesn't contain the suffix -opic (admittedly a redlink, but I might get around to that, as it's simpler than saying words like myopic are from myopia + -ic). I'd go a bit further and say that it doesn't contain the prefix bio- either, since bio is a word on its own ("what's your bio?"), but the etymology we give works just as well, since the pronunciations of the words biographical picture match the standard pronunciation of biopic. Nonstandard doesnt always imply rare ... but even so, I think you may just have by chance not come across the standard pronunciation, because I think it is more common to say BI-o-pic than bi-OP-ic. —Soap— 18:00, 8 September 2023 (UTC)