Thread:SonyaUliana/@comment-26965606-20160831032158/@comment-25938809-20160831121136

I'm with SonyaUliana. Many will read that piece of trivia and may [want to] believe it as true. The few that actually click on the link will read a lengthly post praising the devs doing their homework on this "possibly archaic form" of the word, and may [choose to] ignore the fact-backed rebuttal/s below. And yes, t o say Warspite's pronunciation of admiral is "probably" archaic is just plain incorrect.

All one has to do is refer to cited definition's dictionary's very own pronunciation key. That's Sheridan's Complete Dictionary of the English Language, page ii of "A Prosodial Grammar", under "Scheme of the vowels". There are two pronunciations of "y" in the key: y1 ("ly" as in "lovely") and y2 ("lye", pronounced the same as "lie"). Let's go to page 21, where the cited definition in question is. The pronunciation key reads "a1d-my1-ra1l". The "1" above the y is a bit hard to make out, but is easily compared/confirmed with the pronunciation of "admiralty" right below. So with that, what we have is a pronunciation that is indeed closer to our familiar "ad-mee/mii-ral", vs. Warspite's "ad-my/mai-ral".

Furthermore, we have the word "admire" on the same page. The "i" in the pronunciation key reads  "i2" as in "fight", and, of course, Warspite's "ad-my-ral". The best theory I've heard is that, though Warspite's VA's English pronunciation may be good, she may not be an actual native speaker. It wouldn't be surprising for a non-native English speaker to not be familar with a word with a militaristic orgin like "admiral", and make the totally understandable, but incorrect etymological link to "admire", a word way more commonly used in everyday conversation. Thus, our "ad-my-ral / ad-mire-ral".

TL;DR I agree with SonyaUliana, having this as trivia would be spreading false information. God bless the Queen for pronunciation keys in 16th-century English dictionaries.