http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=homo...

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Di...

Ich breche mir mit der Ausprache dieser beiden Wörter auch immer einen ab (auch wenn ich sie schon hundert mal nachgeschlagen habe, kann ich mich beim besten willen nicht mehr daran erinnern, wie sie ausgesprochen werden). Hoffe die Merriam Links helfen

@una:

Wenn du sie

ho-mo-ge-ni-us (homogeneous) bzw.
het-e-ro-ge-ni-us (heterogeneous)

aussprichst, wird man dich sicher verstehen! :o)

Betont wird jeweis das -ge-

Homogeneous with an accent on the 2nd o and a silent e is actually "homogenous".
Homogeneous has an accent on the first e.
Roughly speaking, homogenous means similar everywhere and homogeneous means of a single type. Therefore the opposite of homogeneous is heterogeneous, but the opposite of homogenous is inconsistent or variable.

i'd say homOgeneous (with the second e silent) and heterogeneous (with the last e silent) but I think americans would pronounce them differently - those e's wouldn't be silent.

Oh, actually Paul's probably right :-)

Thanks to all, erpecially Paul, I didn't know about homogenous and homogeneous. That makes things a lot clearer.

yes, very interesting, I always thought that homogenous was the English word and homogeneous was American, but now I know!

What I have written is what I was taught.
However the online dictionaries say that "homogenous" is a backformation of "homogenise" which means the same as "homogeneous". It therefore cannot be wrong to use homogenous to mean homogeneous.
Has the dictionary changed since I was at university? I'm as confused as everyone else.