pronounciation of either
Li-Lien Lee
Richard Treitel
|> When to pronounce it as 'eether'
When you're in the U.S.A. or talking to an audience that hails from there.
-- Richard
(If my employer holds these views, it hasn't told me.)
Dan Prener
> When to pronounce it as 'eether' and when as 'ither'?
Pick the pronunciation you prefer, and use it all the time.
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Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
ll...@andrew.cmu.edu "Li-Lien Lee" writes:
> When to pronounce it as 'eether' and when as 'ither'?
"Let's call the whole thing off..."
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George Masley
: say it with a "long `i' " sound at the beginning. Many eastern Americans
: also drop the "r" at the end, so you can hear [aID@r] or [aID@].
Your explanation seems to me quite well reasoned. However, I have a
difficulty with the marker of "ee"/"ai." For years, I've heard it used
as a dialect marker in the east, but, in all my years in the eastern US
(a few decades), I've never been able to make any sense whatsoever of
it. I have heard NE US usages of both, SE US usages of both,
mid-Atlantic usages of both, etc. I've heard both from the same speaker,
in fact. While there might have been a regional dialectical variation a
generation ago, when regionalisms appear to have been stronger, my own
anecdotal experience leaves me wondering about it today.
The only constant I've found is that those who consistently pronounce the
word are pretty zealous about their version being the "correct" one. :-)
George Mosley
Chapel Hill, NC
Douglas Harper
Choose a way and stick with it. Either the eether crowd will think you
sound funny or the eyether crowd will.
You can't please 'em all.
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>: >When to pronounce it as 'eether' and when as 'ither'?
>: Most (but certainly not all) Americans pronounce it with the "ee" sound at
>: the beginning, and they also pronounce the "r" at the end, thus as
>: [i:D@r].
>....
>: In the standard pronunciation in Commonwealth countries, the first vowel
>: is said as a "long `i'," and the "r" is dropped: [aID@].
>No -- first of all, the ee/i variation is everywhere.
Canadians use both, and I can think of no systematically used criterion
for choosing one over the other, besides possibly heuristic sound harmony
within the context of a given phrase.
>Secondly, there are many places in the "Commonwealth" where the /r/ is
>used. Scotland for example, and parts of India. It's also used in
>Ireland (which is not in the Commonwealth).
Canada is another Commonwealth example, consistent with the others given:
/r/ after vowels is sounded.
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Peter Schumacher
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Jerry Randal Bauer
and other people pronounce it as though they were trying to say the word
"either". Depending on they way I pronounce it, it could come out either way.
Jerry Randal Bauer
P.S. (I say it as EE-thur, with a fairly strong "ur" sound.)