How do *you* pronounce these words?

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Iinclude what city/area/country you live in.

Do you pronounce mischievous as ‘miss-chi-vus’ or ‘miss-chee-veeous’ or other?

Do you pronounce often as ‘offen’ or ‘off-ton’ or other?

Do you pronounce neither as ‘knee-ther’ or nigh-ther’ or other?

More mis-chee-vus than mis-chi-vus but never with an added "ee"!

Often,

Either knee-ther or nye-ther.

Midlands.

Kent, mis-che-vus, often, neether and nyether!

The mispronunciation of mischievous is a pet hate of mine.

It’s not a case of regional variation - it isn’t miss-chee-vee-us because there’s no second i or e to warrant that sound.

It’s miss-chi-vous. Three syllables.

How do I pronounce them? Correctly, obviously!

Scottish - same as you!

Why do people say mis-chee-vee-us?

What about Shrewsbury and Beaconsfield? Shrows-bry and Beckons-feeld.

Scotland here, mix of west and east so I don't really sound like either but do sound Scottish.

MISS-che-vuss
OFF-tin
NEE-ther (but I agree that it's NIGH-ther here nor there for some reason)

Misscheevious isn't dialect. It's a mispronounciation that has inadvertently been picked up. It's adding an 'i' where there isn't one. Just wrong.

Mischeeveeous is an incorrect pronunciation as there's no 'i' to make the ious sound at the end. So mischivuss is correct.

I say offen and nither. East of England.

Liverpool here
Mis-chee-vous (there is no extra vowel there to make it four syllables, does my head in when people add the extra I!!) in fact I would say I pronounce it more like mis-chi-vous
Offen
Knee-ther
and Bath not Barth

It’s not a case of regional variation - it isn’t miss-chee-vee-us because there’s no second i or e to warrant that sound.

I agree, but tbh once you start trying to base English pronunciation rules strictly on spelling, you're on seriously shaky ground!

‘miss-chi-vus’
‘offen’
‘nigh-ther’

West Yorkshire. Never lived anywhere else.

Haven't we had any "But there's no 'r' sound in bath, why are you pronouncing it 'barth'???!!!" posts from the rhotic speakers yet? .

West of Scotland, I'm the same as you.

Scotland
Miss-cheev-eeous
Off-tin
nigh-ther

Misschivus
Offen
Nyther

East Anglia

I had heard that the additional syllable was added to mischievous by Arthur Lowe when he read the Mr Men books. Don't know if this is an urban myth, but it being on a widely watched TV program would explain its use across dialects / regional variations.

Southern states of America
mischivous
of-fen
Kneether

Mis-chiv-us
Offton
Neether

SE England

Or n-eye-ther, come to think of it.

SE:

1.A
2.B

1. Both

I say Miss-chee-vee-uss
I use often and ‘offen’ interchangeably
I say nee-ther

I’m in the West Country Bristol area

@vhs95
What about Shrewsbury and Beaconsfield? Shrows-bry and Beckons-feeld

Shroose-bry and beekans-feeld

Originally East Midlands but lots of southern England (!):
Mis-chev-us
offen
nigh-ther