Do you say Wensdy Thursdy Fridy, or Wensday Thursday Friday, and where are you from?

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DP and I have just realised that he pronounces the end of day names with a fully-realised "-day", while I use a shorter "-dy" sound, and I can't work out whether it's a regional thing (I'm northern English, he's southern English), one of those obscure English poshness indicators, or I'm just lazier

Me too, also NE

Mondeh, Choosedeh, Wedensdeh, Thursdeh, Frideh, Saturdeh and Sundeh! I'm a Cumbrian (NW England) ☺️

@Phos are you me?? Same for me - used generally 'dy', used when asked 'day'

Probably Saturdee though

I must be odd … I’ve just tried it out loud and I say…

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Mundee, Tuesdee, Wedensdee, Thursdee, but Friday, Saturday & Sunday…..

(From SE London but with Irish influences).

-day North West England

I'm West Midlands and say day. My in laws live a 10 minute drive away and people there say 'wednesdee'. They're more Black Country though.

Same but I’m from Tyneside. Although the ‘enz’ is more ‘nz’ with my accent.

Wednesday is indeed three syllables in some parts of Scotland.

Mun-dy
choose-dy
wens-dy
thuz-dy (soft th like ‘three’ not hard th like the)l
fri-dy
sa’-dy (glottal stop in place of t)
sun-dy

West Yorkshire

Wed-enz-day

Scotland

This!

WED-ENS-DAY
THURS-DAY
FRI-DAY

as god intended

I say Wensday (grew up south london) but my grandad who grew up in rural Essex until about 1916 used to say Wensdee

I’m a Londoner and I can’t even say bloody water or butter properly . But I say Wednesday Thursday Friday

Mon-dy, Tues-dy etc
Also East Mids 🙂

Wensdy thursdy fridy. NW England. Some areas are known to say wensder, thursder frider etc.
No sweat about any of the different pronunciation tbh, everyone knows what you mean!!

😂

I think you have your soft and hard th the other way round to what I thought you meant initially, but once I'd sorted out my misunderstanding, I think yours is the closest to my pronunciation of them (tho I'm tyoo-, not choo-, and after living in the southeast for so long, I've lengthened my "thur"). I'm from South Yorkshire but with strong West Yorkshire influences (family and some schooling).

Another North Easter who says them properly!

London here, and pronounce the full "day", as does DH. Neither of us are posh, although DH is definitely less posh than me.

I think it is regional/accent based.

Definitely say 'day'. From Merseyside but mostly brought up in North Wales. Now in the Midlands.

Wenzday, Thurzday, Friday. I am Aussie originally.

I say day on the end but the local accent here in Suffolk is to say di on the end.

I am indeed British born and bred.

As said, the 2nd syllable (and actually the 1st too) is almost swallowed, said on the in breath.

When I was pondering about poshness, I didn't really have any idea about which direction any poshness would be in, but thought it was always possible it was a factor… old RP was weirdly clipped-sounding in places.