Comment on How do you pronounce 'Niche'?

swordgeek@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• iocase@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Pronouncing it “nitch” is how biologists pronounce niche when talking about “that thing an organism does well to survive”

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  • k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    How American biologists pronounce it.

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• Gnergy@piefed.europe.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Everyone who has played through GTA 5 has heard the pronunciation “nitch” here: https://youtu.be/FlzZhGr8G9w?t=79

  I (nonnative speaker of English) used to think it was pronounced neesh because my first language’s cognate (Nische) is pronounced similar to that. But since hearing that scene I know that’s not universally the case.

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  • AyuTsukasa@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That is the first time in all my years that I’ve ever heard it pronounced that way, and now I’m wondering if I live under a rock.

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