Comment on Niche species
BruisedMoose@piefed.social 3 weeks agoMaybe 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.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It’s originally a French word so I would guess that nitch is likely the more recent mutation.
chunes@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah. “Nitch” didn’t show up until 1917 and got added to the Webster dictionary in 1961.
BruisedMoose@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Oh, I agree. The Frenchish version just wasn’t around me growing up.