Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 14 hours agoHow do you pronounce 'Niche'?message-squaremessage-square64fedilinkarrow-up161arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up159arrow-down1message-squareHow do you pronounce 'Niche'?Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 14 hours agomessage-square64fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareSwordgeek@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up12·7 hours agoneesh for all purposes. I’ve never heard anyone talk about a “nitch.” Maybe an US dialect?
minus-squareiocase@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 hours agoPronouncing it “nitch” is how biologists pronounce niche when talking about “that thing an organism does well to survive”
minus-squareGnergy@piefed.europe.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 hours agoEveryone 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.
neesh for all purposes.
I’ve never heard anyone talk about a “nitch.” Maybe an US dialect?
Pronouncing it “nitch” is how biologists pronounce niche when talking about “that thing an organism does well to survive”
How American biologists pronounce it.
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.