Comment on Niche species

• Velypso@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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  • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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      • teft@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        policing how people use words to uphold some „purity“ of language

        Pretty much every language besides english has an institute dedicated to doing that exact thing. In spanish it’s the Royal Spanish Academy (La Real Academia Española).

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  • Sidhean@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “Nitch”

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  • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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• BruisedMoose@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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