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Post by gillyp on Apr 18, 2024 7:38:02 GMT
Aaaaargh, you had an option for "neither one" but no option for "both". I say it both ways, but I have no idea under what circumstances I would say eye-thuh and when I would say ee-thuh. Wait, so you don’t say the r at the end? Hmm. I need to revise my “yeah, that” of gar’s post and realise I am more “yeah, that” of AussieMeg’s! I am definitely a thuh at the end and never a thurrr.  |
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Post by gar on Apr 18, 2024 7:56:19 GMT
Wait, so you don’t say the r at the end? Hmm. I need to revise my “yeah, that” of gar ’s post and realise I am more “yeah, that” of AussieMeg ’s! I am definitely a thuh at the end and never a thurrr. Well, now you mention it I probably am too! I was concentrating on the first syllable  I guess it sounds just like saying the words 'eye' and 'the' together? |
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Post by gillyp on Apr 18, 2024 7:57:40 GMT
Hmm. I need to revise my “yeah, that” of gar ’s post and realise I am more “yeah, that” of AussieMeg ’s! I am definitely a thuh at the end and never a thurrr. Well, now you mention it I probably am too! I was concentrating on the first syllable I guess it sounds just like saying the words 'eye' and 'the' together? Exactly. |
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Post by lainey on Apr 18, 2024 8:02:57 GMT
Both. It depends which way the wind is blowing!
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Post by 3boysnme on Apr 18, 2024 12:57:25 GMT
I chose eye-ther as I say that most times. Same with n-eye-ther. But I've since realized that I say it both ways. I guess depending upon the circumstances.
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Post by gramasue on Apr 18, 2024 13:17:01 GMT
You know, I've never thought about it before, but I use both versions.
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Post by allison1954 on Apr 18, 2024 13:29:25 GMT
My DH says I use them interchangeably, sometimes in the same conversation. |
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Post by aprilfay21 on Apr 18, 2024 14:07:15 GMT
I use both, actually. Same for nee-ther/nigh-ther. Like some of the others it depends on the words around it.
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Post by katlady on Apr 18, 2024 15:19:47 GMT
Last night I was watching the news and they interviewed someone. This person pronounced “either” BOTH ways in the SAME sentence. I started laughing and SO didn’t know what was going on. What a coincidence. I guess I am attuned to that word right now. 😂
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Post by huskergal on Apr 18, 2024 16:39:50 GMT
I pronounce it both ways.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Apr 18, 2024 16:58:35 GMT
I do both! Either, either, neither, neither, let's call the whole thing off. the minute I read the OP, I heard this music in my head!!! one of my favorites! ...sigh... Fred and Ginger could certainly make ANYthing they sung and danced to catchy, and debonair, all at the same time. |
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Post by melanell on Apr 18, 2024 18:53:06 GMT
EYE-thur and nEYE-thur for me---most of the time. (Sometimes I think I do say them the other way, but I don't know why.)
I'm in the northeast US. But I think I may be a bit of an anomaly with this pronunciation. It's not regional that I know of. I typically hear others say EE-thur and nEE-thur.
Same for ON-velope (which is how I say it) vs EN-velope, which is how most other people I know say it.
I never made a choice to say these words differently from others, so somewhere along the way in my early life I picked them up from someone, but I never noticed it enough to tell you who it may have been. I just know that DH has been teasing me about ON-velope since we met nearly 30 years ago. I remember looking it it up in a dictionary to prove that I was perfectly in my rights to say it that way, LOL!
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Post by PLurker on Apr 18, 2024 19:17:34 GMT
Generally, Long e
but sometimes long I.
Why? I don't know what triggers the latter. I'll have to pay attention next time I hear me say it with a long I.lol
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Post by withapea on Apr 18, 2024 19:20:48 GMT
I say it both ways ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Post by hop2 on Apr 18, 2024 19:53:48 GMT
Both, depends on the words around it. yes that. Plus I had an elementary teacher who used to sing song either, eye-ther or- neither, n-eye-ther nor as some sort of rhyme but I can’t recall the rest of the rhyme |
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I guess it sounds just like saying the words 'eye' and 'the' together?
