How do you pronounce 'insulin'?

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Sorry it is random! Just been watching a documentary on Lucy Letby and one of the people of there was pronouncing 'insulin' in a way that was making my teeth itch! 😂

How do you pronounce it?

In-sue-lin

In syou lin

In syu lin

There is no "r" in the word. Are the people sticking an "r" in it non-rhotic speakers?

Wtf? 😂

R???

In su lin . Never heard anything different! Or ins u Lin.

In-Sue-lin.
Type 1 diabetic of 50 years.

In-shuh-lin for me.

BET the narrator was saying something like ‘ins-you-lin’ which is what my mother would say and is deeply irritating.

What’s wrong with being a non-rhotic speaker? Who has added an R? Not any of the posts I’ve seen (didn’t read page 2 to be fair!)

They don't where I Nurse!

I assume people adding the h sound do so due to the pronunciation of sugar and insurance?

Yes that’s exactly how I pronounce it.

In-sul-in

Nothing is wrong with being a non-rhotic speaker.

Several posters have put an "r" in their phonetic rendering of their pronunciation (as in the second syllable pronounced "sir"). That only makes sense if the poster is non-rhotic, as in pronouncing "sir" as "suh."

In-soo-lyn

I worked for the manufacturer of insulin who’d be making it for 100 years (don’t pile on me for working for big pharma.🤣🤣🤣🤣)

americans pronounce it slightly differently than most uk people. Europeans pronounce it differently again especially form Latin language countries, and as for the scousers, the Scot’s, the Irish …(where we had factories), well it varies there just about as many times as any relatively older word in the dictionary with different dialect.

Insulin has been used as term since 1900 coming from Latin Insula (meaning island) by a French chemist. So it gives a good indication that u type sound is vaguely important. But term was only properly formalised in 1920s in Washington, usa. So immediately had a different pronunciation from the get go.

As you can see from posters responses even medically trained individuals will have dialect variation. Like any word in local dialect they’ll be times someone with different dialect has to clarify what the hell you’re talking about, but local people will know exactly what you’re talking about

dictionary shows the difference between US AND uk formal pronounciation , which has existed for decades …for what it’s worth as I worked for this USA company for 26 years I say IN-sur-lin but the middle bit is not emphasised and fast….but that is due to the mid west accent of the company and where they’re based. Never had anyone struggle to know what I mean. Never had anyone in company worldwide form Japan to South America struggle with any misunderstanding of what they were talking about.

yep, it might grate, as any accent or dialect, but that’s personal taste or experience.

This.

This.

Like the U.K. pronunciation in @marshbirds link. As the etymology suggests, like insular.

I've heard a lot of people say this word over the years of many nationalities including Americans in the context of its molecular structure, and I've never noticed much of a variation.

Inn-Sur-Lyn

Ince-you-lin

Well they should stop it.
Think 'insular' and 'insulate'. Does anyone feel the need to put 'sh' sounds in those?

@Marshbird

I say IN-sur-lin

I'm a rhotic speaker so this would be an odd way for me to say it as the word has no "r" in it.

In shoe lynne