Comment on Niche species

BruisedMoose@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  it’s pronounced kneesh, but I’m willing to overlook it for the sake of a meme. You may ask, ‘will you die on that hill?’ and I’ll reply “some will”.

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  • BruisedMoose@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    With a hard K?

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    • Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      A hard silent k.

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      • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        This guy gets it

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• atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I am confused, do you think niche rhymes with bitch?

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  • Velypso@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It is commonly pronounced that way in the US, imo both pronunciations are correct.

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    • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      As an American if someone said “nitch” out loud I would secretly die inside and then do my best to remember this:

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      • FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It would make me cringe asf but similarly I would remember policing how people use words to uphold some „purity“ of language is mostly BS and your time can be spent in much better ways.

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    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ve never heard anybody pronounce it that way, and since we regularly tell children to “sound it out” to spell things I am going to go ahead and say no to adding letters personally.

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      • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I mean that t is kinda already there if you don’t know that it’s French. Compared “beach”.

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    • Sidhean@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “Nitch”

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  • BruisedMoose@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Maybe it’s partly regional, but growing up it was always “nitch”. Like “Tom has really found his (nitch).” It only seems to have been making the transition to “neesh” in the last 10 years or so and it still sounds off to me.

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    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s originally a French word so I would guess that nitch is likely the more recent mutation.

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      • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah. “Nitch” didn’t show up until 1917 and got added to the Webster dictionary in 1961.

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      • BruisedMoose@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oh, I agree. The Frenchish version just wasn’t around me growing up.

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• zakobjoa@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Female dogs are called beeshes?

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  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What else do you call a female Bichon?

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