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NickwithaC@lemmy.world to Ask UK@feddit.ukEnglish · 3 months ago

Is it EE-ther or EYE-ther where you live?

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Is it EE-ther or EYE-ther where you live?

NickwithaC@lemmy.world to Ask UK@feddit.ukEnglish · 3 months ago
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    3 months ago

    Never heard of anyone say the second.

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      3 months ago

      Cambridge thinks it’s American English vs. British English. Cambridge is wrong.

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      3 months ago

      I’ve definitely said both as a speaker of General American. Gershwin even has it in a song lyric written in the 1930s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let’s_Call_the_Whole_Thing_Off#Full_list_of_differences

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