Re: How do you pronounce "either"?
Originally Posted by
Nixarter
"Eye-ther" sounds horridly pretentious to me. I avoid it at all costs. When I hear people say it I think "This person is stupid and trying to cover it up by feeble attempts to sound intelligent." I find intelligence and "that type" of person mutually-exclusive.
Lol. I've known people I've felt that way about. But I've also known people who say "eye-ther" that I didn't feel like they're an idiot, too.
Originally Posted by
lisati
I'm confident we could come up with a list of words with regional and contextual variations in pronunciation and meaning. Example: "sup" seems to be a greeting these days, abbreviated from "What's up?" but I can't help thinking of food when I hear it.
What? I just thought that when people say "sup", they're inviting me to dinner!
I remember in the late 80's when it started becoming popular to say "What's up?" The first time someone said it to me, I started laughing and said, "What's up, Doc?" because I thought they were quoting Bugs Bunny.
Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You. - Dr. Seuss
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