Please state in which country your phrase tends to be used, what the phrase is, and what it should be.

Example:

In America, recently came across “back-petal”, instead of back-pedal. Also, still hearing “for all intensive purposes” instead of “for all intents and purposes”.

    • @AEsheron
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      423 days ago

      Neesh is actually the much newer pronunciation apparently, TIL.

        • @tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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          223 days ago

          \NICH\ is the more common one and the older of the two pronunciations. It is the only pronunciation given for the word in all English dictionaries until the 20th century, when \NEESH\ was first listed as a pronunciation variant in Daniel Jones’s English Pronouncing Dictionary (1917). \NEESH\ wasn’t listed as a pronunciation in our dictionaries until our 1961 Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged, and it wasn’t entered into our smaller Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary until 1993. Even then, it was marked in the Collegiate as a pronunciation that was in educated use but not considered acceptable until 2003.

          https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/niche

          • @sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            223 days ago

            It’s confusing because the way it’s spelled makes it look French, so if you read it in a book and didn’t hear other people say it, you might think it was “Neech” if you know French also.

            Just like “voila” you might think is said the French way, like it’s spelled, but a lot of English speakers say “walla”.

            • @tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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              323 days ago

              I subscribe to the view that people mispronouncing things have read more stuff rather than heard things, so of course I’m not looking down on them for that. I didn’t realize until recently that quinoa wasn’t kwin-OH-ah for awhile, or even in my youthful fondness for Greek myths that the goddess wasn’t called ah-fro-DAIT.

                • xapr [he/him]
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                  222 days ago

                  English pronunciation is completely all over the place, so much so that you frequently cannot predict how a word is supposed to be pronounced. I usually don’t pay too much attention to pronunciation errors because of that.

            • xapr [he/him]
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              122 days ago

              Just like “voila” you might think is said the French way, like it’s spelled, but a lot of English speakers say “walla”.

              Ugh, I can’t agree with this one. I think a lot of English speakers say “walla” because they think it’s spelled “walla”.

    • @Feathercrown
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      424 days ago

      I’ve heard this one like 3 times in the last month on youtube and it bothers me a lot

        • @Lesrid@lemm.ee
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          24 days ago

          If I had to take a guess I would venture that this person says “It’s not my nitch.” and “wow that product is very neesh.”

          I swear I’ve met someone like this now that I think about it

      • JackFrostNCola
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        223 days ago

        I suppose, if the context is if you prefer to be correct or not?