i pronounce it Nietzsche

So can we declare this thread as dead as God?

ache isn't a french word.

Maybe not dead, but resolved:glugglug

Yes, but notice there is a "T" in "itch". Not in niche.

That's why we pronounce stitch as stitch. But mustache is pronounced mustash rather than mustitch.

Well I guess if you have and ICHE to call it NITCH then HICHE your BICHE ass on the horse you rode in on and go on. And please do not PICHE a fit over this and DICHE any civility you have by acting like a WICHE. Hopefully this won't tear the board part otherwise we'll have to STICHE it back together somehow.

I've certainly never heard it pronounced mustitch:winkwink:

It's originally a french word. It's pronounced Neesh. Period.

When a 'che' is at the END of a word it's usually pronounced "sh". For instance mustache.

When a 'che' is at the BEGINNING of a word it's usually prounounced "ch' as in chestnut.

When a 'tch' is at the END of a word it's usually pronounced 'ch' as in pitch.

It's niche, not nitch, so it would be pronounced NEESH, if spoken 'correctly'.

Hmmmm

mustaCHE
cliCHE
caCHE

all have the SH sound to me.

That's ritch

...or is that riche:glugglug

Exactly

I pronounce it "Niche"

(neesh)

Please tell me Americans don't pronounce quiche "Kitch"? :1orglaugh

Douche

did someone slap all the americans with the idiot stick again?

Or did they forget that they aren't right all the time. (See "election 2004").

A Proud English Speaking Brit.

avalanche
psyche

Or is it

DOOTCH

they have consonants before the CH not vowels.

Neither are Brits. (see "empire")

Should be. Rhymes with COOTCH.

I'm not owned. But you made a down payment. :321GFY

Nice find. I think the English rule is that in this case if the che follows a vowel it will be 'sh'. Like Douche is doosh because the che is followed by 'U' which is a vowel.

It's not the case in avalanche and psyche. Remember 'Y' is sometimes a vowel (a,e,i,o,u, and sometimes y). In this case I don't think the 'y' is considered a voewel. Nor is N a vowel. And that's why they're pronounced differently. Psyche sounds like Sike and Avalanche sounds like avalanch.

If that's your opinion, then you admit the americans are wrong?

I thank you. :thumbsup

I like to say it "neesh" potato potato :winkwink:

I am an American and I was right about NEESH.
By the way coloUr, neighboUr and flavoUr are stUpid.

Also it's pronounced SKedule not SHedule

and A LOO MIN NUM not AL U MINI UM

Wrong about what?

My point prooved perfectly. Someone put the stupid stick down, its not a game anymore.

It's niche, not nitch. Those who pronounce it as "nitch" should be thrown in jail for raping language :2 cents:

Yep everything you said here is correct. But colour and color are more interchangeable and not as much of a gaffe as substituting "nitch" for "neesh" because the letter 'U' in both cases follows from a consinent and is therefore not pronounced.

For instance in camouflage, you don't hear the 'U' because it follows the letter 'O'. It's camoflage, not camUflage even though there is a U in it.

I think you mean IT'S and PROVED, you snagletoothed limey dipshit.

neesh

By "consinent" I meant "consonant". Poor spelling again.

Start with the people at Mirriam Webster, they say pronouncing it as "nitch" is proper.

Lol are you seriously talking to me about language in the same sentence as calling me snagletoothed?
Oh shit i forgot, americans don't have irony.

the e makes it neeshay

ive never heard someone say nitch

nEsh

but then again, what does Merriam-Webster know.

how do you pronounce :thefinger

We have a great sense of irony. Like how funny it is when another anti-American dumbass tries to prove how smart he is posting moronic shit like this.

"My point prooved perfectly. Someone put the stupid stick down, its not a game anymore."


btw - welcome to the board. You're doing a GREAT job promoting your program! This board REALLY needed another pseudo-intelluctual anti-American dipshit.

M-W also says it can be pronounced "nich".

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

This is proof...