Comment on Niche species
BruisedMoose@piefed.social 1 day 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 23 hours ago
It’s originally a French word so I would guess that nitch is likely the more recent mutation.
chunes@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Yeah. “Nitch” didn’t show up until 1917 and got added to the Webster dictionary in 1961.
BruisedMoose@piefed.social 16 hours ago
Oh, I agree. The Frenchish version just wasn’t around me growing up.