askuk·Ask UKbyNickwithaC Is it EE-ther or EYE-ther where you live?View original on lemmy.world7Comments11
lladel feddit.uk1Hide 1 replyIs this actually a dialect thing? I'm pretty sure I switch between them both with no real logic.10
NKBTN replyfeddit.ukSame, but probably Eye-ther most commonly for me. From South east. For some reason EE-ther puts me in mind of the west country2
Hossenfeffer replyfeddit.ukCambridge thinks it's American English vs. British English. Cambridge is wrong.2
ttiredofsametab replyfedia.ioI've definitely said both as a speaker of General American. Gershwin even has it in a song lyric written in the 1930s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_Call_the_Whole_Thing_Off#Full_list_of_differences1
Is this actually a dialect thing? I'm pretty sure I switch between them both with no real logic.
Same, but probably Eye-ther most commonly for me. From South east.
For some reason EE-ther puts me in mind of the west country
I see what you did there. Nice.
It's either here.
I would use both ways depending on context, but ee-ther by default.
I'm in Swindon.
EE-ther. Never heard anyone say the second
Never heard of anyone say the second.
Cambridge thinks it's American English vs. British English. Cambridge is wrong.
I've definitely said both as a speaker of General American. Gershwin even has it in a song lyric written in the 1930s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_Call_the_Whole_Thing_Off#Full_list_of_differences
Either ee-ther or eye-ther.
It's pronounced ether motorboats cloth and inhales deeply AWW YEEEEA!