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Schedule pronunciation

54 replies

HowDairy · 17/11/2025 20:39

How do you pronounce schedule?

Shed-jool

Or

Sked-jool

Or

Other (Let's face it, this being MN, there will always be a "other" 😄)

OP posts:
stormageddmum · 17/11/2025 21:26

It's shed in the UK (and I'm hoping there are some train announcers reading this!)

BoredZelda · 17/11/2025 21:26

Skedule is common in Scotland. I say Shedule and correct the other Scottish people in my house and at my work when they say skedule.

BoredZelda · 17/11/2025 21:28

JustHereWithMyPopcorn · 17/11/2025 21:16

Shed yule. Sked has only become popular due to US media influence. I’m currently battling DS2 with pronouncing semi as sem-eye and beta as bayta. 😩

My husband is not at all influenced by anything in the US media. He’s said skedule in the 25 years we’ve been together.

MumOfTheMoos · 17/11/2025 21:54

Shed

Because I am British not American

FrangipaniBlue · 17/11/2025 21:57

BlossomLeaves · 17/11/2025 20:58

Sked if I’m scheduling something.

Shed if it’s a noun. (No rhyme or reason to why though)

I do the opposite 🤣

Shedyuling
the Skedyul

Davros · 17/11/2025 21:58

OneWildNightWithJBJ · 17/11/2025 20:53

I think shed is UK pronunciation (which I say) and sked is US.

Edited

THIS!

GetToHeaven · 18/11/2025 00:16

I say shed, and as a solicitor I say it a lot! I occasionally hear sked but not often.

mazedasamarchhare · 18/11/2025 08:36

Sked I’m a Brit.
I guess it’s no different from the sk sound in school. I’m trying to think of any incidents I’d use ‘sh’ instead of ‘sk’ when I see ‘sch’ combo, the only one I can think of is ‘schlep’, I think all the other words I use ‘sk’.

thecalmsea · 18/11/2025 08:39

I say skedule because I went to an international school I think and had some American teachers.

Shedule sounds OK to me but 'when is the bus sheduled to arrive?' sounds really odd.

Borgonzola · 18/11/2025 08:42

Could skedule. Should schedule. (Memory technique for the correct one)

Borgonzola · 18/11/2025 08:43

(I say ‘correct’ lightheartedly as that’s what I consider to be correct)

indoorplantqueen · 18/11/2025 09:20

Sked like the sch sound in school

ErrolTheDragon · 18/11/2025 09:33

I use both, probably more ‘skied’ . I’ve worked for an international company for nearly 40 years, most colleagues in my team are in the US. It simply doesn’t matter, both pronunciations are completely comprehensible and not liable to be mistaken for anything else.

boulevardofbrokendreamss · 18/11/2025 18:34

Sked but I went to an American school and it stuck

BlancCheck · 18/11/2025 18:42

Shed ule here
Also Left tennant not Lew tenant for Lieutenant

crazycrofter · 18/11/2025 18:44

My first job was at a small firm of accountants where the main partner was proper old school- he forbade anyone from saying ‘skedule’ due to it being American!

JDM625 · 18/11/2025 18:50

I'm team Shed

If relevant, I grew up abroad (Not USA) and my 1st language is English.

FeatheryFlorence · 18/11/2025 18:52

She’d

FeatheryFlorence · 18/11/2025 18:52

Shed. Bloody autocorrect!

Prokovopera · 18/11/2025 19:30

I say “sked” - shed sounds weird to me. I’m British, 56 years old and speak RP - so I guess this must be an aberration of which I was previously completely unaware!

Letthemeatgateau · 18/11/2025 19:33

Shed here too - that's the English pronunciation. I've just looked it up in the Cambridge Dictionary.

napody · 18/11/2025 19:46

Shed- ever since Anastasia Krupnik in Lois Lowry's brilliant children's books informed me that it was the English pronunciation.

tinytemper66 · 18/11/2025 19:50

I say skedyule.
South West Wales…

nocoolnamesleft · 18/11/2025 19:51

I am not American: shed.

GarlicHound · 18/11/2025 19:56

Ineffable23 · 17/11/2025 20:56

Shed-yule

This is how I was raised to say it. In normal use, I say shed-ju-uwl.

I wouldn't say sked, that's American. I managed to resist diarise (or diarize) throughout my career, but my brain thinks it's a real word. My addiction to US office dramas is showing!

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