c/askuk · by NickwithaC@lemmy.world · 1yIs it EE-ther or EYE-ther where you live? 7 points · 11 comments · view on lemmy.world
11 Comments
ladel@feddit.uk · 10 pts · 1y
Is this actually a dialect thing? I'm pretty sure I switch between them both with no real logic.
NKBTN@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 1y
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
Zip2@feddit.uk · 9 pts · 1y
CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al · 3 pts · 1y
I see what you did there. Nice.
MapTheft@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y
It's either here.
Patch@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 1y
I would use both ways depending on context, but ee-ther by default.
I'm in Swindon.
CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al · 3 pts · 1y
EE-ther. Never heard anyone say the second
blackn1ght@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 1y
Never heard of anyone say the second.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 1y
Cambridge thinks it's American English vs. British English. Cambridge is wrong.
tiredofsametab@fedia.io · 1 pts · 1y
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
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 1y
Either ee-ther or eye-ther.
Aggravationstation@feddit.uk · 0 pts · 1y
It's pronounced ether motorboats cloth and inhales deeply AWW YEEEEA!