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| How do YOU (yourself) personally pronounce EITHER? |
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| EE-ther |
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35% |
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| Both |
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52% |
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Boodleheimer

Joined: 10 Mar 2006 Location: working undercover for the Man
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Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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Virginia- EYEther
but everyone else in my family says it the other way. |
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Been There, Taught That

Joined: 10 Apr 2007 Location: Mungyeong: not a village, not yet a metroplex.
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Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Either, to rhyme with neither. I mean, no matter how you pronounce either, neither can be thought of without either, but then, the sound of neither finds you opting for the lilting tone of either the way you are used to it or not. Ain't no lie, neither. |
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tzechuk

Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 5:30 pm Post subject: |
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Eye-ther.
Derby, Midlands, England. |
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nateium

Joined: 21 Aug 2006 Location: Seoul
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Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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American from Boston and I say Eye-thah  |
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bluzusi

Joined: 29 Jul 2007
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Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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EE-ther.
I'm in Idaho. |
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ursus_rex
Joined: 20 Mar 2004 Location: Seoul, ROK
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Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Both and I'm Canadian. |
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Big_Bird

Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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| bejarano-korea wrote: |
In regards of the choices you put down, as a northern Englishman NEEVA  |
Goo on then lad, gi' uz ' proppa prununciaaashun then cocker. What should uz a' written, like? |
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bejarano-korea

Joined: 13 Dec 2006
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Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 9:32 am Post subject: |
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| Big_Bird wrote: |
| bejarano-korea wrote: |
In regards of the choices you put down, as a northern Englishman NEEVA  |
Goo on then lad, gi' uz ' proppa prununciaaashun then cocker. What should uz a' written, like? |
Tha' knows proper preeeenunsiation lady! thi speak proper and it's
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVA!!! not NEEEEEEEEEEEEFER like some
bloody scouser mon!  |
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dutchy pink
Joined: 06 Feb 2007 Location: Incheon
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Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 9:55 am Post subject: |
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| Been There, Taught That wrote: |
| Either, to rhyme with neither. I mean, no matter how you pronounce either, neither can be thought of without either, but then, the sound of neither finds you opting for the lilting tone of either the way you are used to it or not. Ain't no lie, neither. |
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