NickwithaC@lemmy.world to Ask UK@feddit.ukEnglish · 1 month agoIs it EE-ther or EYE-ther where you live?message-squaremessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down10
arrow-up18arrow-down1message-squareIs it EE-ther or EYE-ther where you live?NickwithaC@lemmy.world to Ask UK@feddit.ukEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square12fedilink
minus-squareblackn1ght@feddit.ukMlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agoNever heard of anyone say the second.
minus-squareHossenfeffer@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoCambridge thinks it’s American English vs. British English. Cambridge is wrong.
minus-squaretiredofsametab@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoI’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’s_Call_the_Whole_Thing_Off#Full_list_of_differences
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’s_Call_the_Whole_Thing_Off#Full_list_of_differences