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JesstheMess42 · 23/01/2024 17:39

LightheartedMy friend and I disagree on how you pronounce the word advertisement. One of us says “add-vert-iSS-ment” and the other says “add-ver-tiZe-ment”. We’re both English if this is relevant 😊

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HavfrueDenizKisi · 24/01/2024 11:38

For me it's adVERTissment which I think is the typical British English pronunciation and the other way is an American English pronunciation that has slipped into some people's language here in the UK (see also normalcy instead of normality or the pronunciation of privacy).

WhollyGlorious · 24/01/2024 10:45

JudgeJ · 23/01/2024 21:53

Not if you'd been in my NW Grammar school, the Head once did an entire assembly on how to pronounce advertisment, ad-vert-IZE-ment was the lowest of the low.

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😂 to be fair, if your head has seen the quality of my high school it would definitely have reinforced his view.

Filletofcheddar · 23/01/2024 23:33

Ad-ver-TIS-ment

JudgeJ · 23/01/2024 21:53

WhollyGlorious · 23/01/2024 17:43

AdverTIZEment - NW England

Not if you'd been in my NW Grammar school, the Head once did an entire assembly on how to pronounce advertisment, ad-vert-IZE-ment was the lowest of the low.

Wooloohooloo · 23/01/2024 21:02

I've heard and probably used both. No preference. I usually just say adverts/ads.

ColleenDonaghy · 23/01/2024 20:33

Irish, I say advert-IZE-ment.

I think Grin

QueenBean22 · 23/01/2024 20:31

Add-vert-ISS-ment

The way they say it in Mary poppins

DanceMumTaxi · 23/01/2024 20:26

Ad-ver-tize-ment

pickledandpuzzled · 23/01/2024 20:23

Queen’s English, or RP, is addVERTissment.

ADDverteyez

in USA is ADDverteyezment

TeenLifeMum · 23/01/2024 20:22

It’s regional.

Thehamsterthatcametotea · 23/01/2024 20:22

Ad vert is ment

Hushabyelullaby · 23/01/2024 20:21

@Notimeforaname my Irish friends and family say it the same as you

duckpancakes · 23/01/2024 20:20

I don't even know any more!!! I think I use both!

iknowwhymummysporridgewascold · 23/01/2024 20:19

Ad-ver-tiz-ment

Notimeforaname · 23/01/2024 20:18

add-ver-tiZe-ment.. I'm Irish.

s4usagefingers · 23/01/2024 20:18

misskatamari · 23/01/2024 18:52

Wow this thread has shocked me! I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone in the UK say ad-vert-is-ment, only ever heard Americans say it that way. I’d say advert-eyes-ment. I now need to ask everyone I encounter over the coming days how they say this!

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Same!

north of England

Hushabyelullaby · 23/01/2024 20:17

pickledandpuzzled · 23/01/2024 17:41

AdVERTissment.

This for me too

AgnesX · 23/01/2024 20:16

Advert-iss-ment.

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JesstheMess42 · 23/01/2024 20:16

We both grew up in north west England.

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pickledandpuzzled · 23/01/2024 20:14

JesstheMess42 · 23/01/2024 20:13

So sorry!
yabu- add-vert-iZ-ment

yanbu- add-vert-iSS-ment “

Both are wrong.

AddVERTissment

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JesstheMess42 · 23/01/2024 20:13

So sorry!
yabu- add-vert-iZ-ment

yanbu- add-vert-iSS-ment “

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Turkeyhen · 23/01/2024 18:57

I’ve heard adverTIZEment up north but adVERT-is-ment down south. I think both are acceptable pronunciations.

hogmanayhoolie · 23/01/2024 18:53

pickledandpuzzled · 23/01/2024 17:41

AdVERTissment.

This is the way

Harrietsaunt · 23/01/2024 18:52

Definitely emphasis on the second syllable.

Saying advertIZement is all kinds of wrong. SE

gardenfoundry · 23/01/2024 18:52

Ad-ver-tiss-ment. The strongest sounding syllable is the 'ver'.

Grew up in west London.