Niche - nitch or neesh?

Nitch
41% (7 votes)
Neesh
59% (10 votes)
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Pretty sure it's pronounced, nitch, yes. http://google.com

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Pretty sure it's pronounced, nitch, yes. http://google.com

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I think "niche" means a one type of special category.

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I say Neesh, I read it as Neesh too, Americans have no right to say the English are saying it wrong..
Honestly, G's.. where be yo homies at backin up yo argumentz?

See what I'm getting at there?. England> Potato, USA> Pota(h/r)to

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You say it as "NEESH"

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nitch

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I have never even heard of neesh

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I've been saying it neesh too, then I asked a language teacher friend and she said it supposed to be nitch... I'm still confused...

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Wow, I've always said "nitch" and it never even occured to me ther ewas another way to pronounce it. TBH, I've been spelling it wrong, too. LOL

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JeevesBond;225416 wrote: Nitch ... sounds too much like itch to me, although the different pronunciations have always confused me! Smiling

Lol that was the first thing that came to my mind when I first heard it pronounced nitch, anyway I pronounce it neesh and I'm British so it probably is a British/American thing.

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Roo wrote: Not long ago he was standing with a bunch of people and a photographer was taking a picture and they were all supposed to raise thier right hands...Dubya raised his left. (Over there on the far right side...the moron with the wrong hand raised)

lol, oh dear.

Ah Roo, it's great having someone around who doesn't mince their words:

Roo wrote: Dubya is as dumb as a stump.

Laughing out loud

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tobyfrost wrote: George Bush quote
" the problem with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur"

Seriously, are you joking... Well I know you're joking, but are you making that up? He really said that? I did like the Have I Got News For You clips on Bush.

Quote: He asked me what state Wales is in.
And you said: awful!

Quote: Berty A-hern [...] I gotta go eat a burger!

Not trying to offend any Americans here, or start some political debate, but George W does come out with some daft stuff sometimes. He's the David Brent of world politics. Laughing out loud

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Dubya is as dumb as a stump.

Not long ago he was standing with a bunch of people and a photographer was taking a picture and they were all supposed to raise thier right hands...Dubya raised his left. (Over there on the far right side...the moron with the wrong hand raised)

Oh...and I say nitch...never heard of neech!

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I don't understand where the T comes from in nitch? and why the E is dropped from the end.

But it will only be Americans (or american TV watchers) that say nitch because that is where that pronunciation originated, everyone else references the french origin.

George Bush quote
" the problem with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur"

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tobyfrost;226310 wrote: George Bush quote
" the problem with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur"

Laughing out loud

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I say neesh (and think and read neesh too)

It is of course a french word, and would be pronounced neesh in france
But as with all words taken from languages and adopted into another, they often get changed from local and national dialects and accents
and of course language/alphabet constraints can change words

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I've pronounced the first variant.

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You NON-Americans! Jeez! Okay - if I see it spelled out and I read it I say neesh - if I am just talking I say nitch.

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neesh - I think.

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Maybe that's it - I chose "neesh"

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Nitch.

I wonder if Americans are the ones who say nitch, and the rest of the English world say neesh?

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nitch, never heard of neesh

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Nitch ... sounds too much like itch to me, although the different pronunciations have always confused me! Smiling

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