To pronounce "nihilist" this way?

[PitilessYank]

I say it like this:

"Nee-hilist"

But in polling my friends, 9/10 say "neye-hilist."

Which sounds more correct?

Sorbet is another tricky one. Its origins are Arabic, not French, so the final T should be pronounced - "sore bet" not "sore bay". It's basically the same word as sherbet.

What about hyperbole?? I've said it wrong all my life, because I cannot believe he right pronunciation is right?

(Gutted about sorbet!)

hy - per - boll - ee ?

linoo yes, of course, but ifyoulikepinacolada seemed adamant that ee-go is the correct pronunciation, so I wondered.

Neye-ilist for me!

DH drives me round the bend with it though. He says NIL-HILL-IST!!! He never did master the English language, and yes, he is English.

Egg-oh would make me think that the speaker was about to start throwing eggs at someone they didn't agree with. Therefore it is ee-go.

I was in a seminar with someone recently kept referring to what I presumed was a theorist named "Syke". No! It was how she pronounced "psyche"...

Also, how do people pronounce "synecdoche"? I make a point never to say it out loud. Is it "sinneck-doshee" or "-dockee"?

Oh, and DH also pronounces annihilate as a-nil-hill-ate.

I sometimes just give up!

Definitely -dockee . It's a play on words on my cousin's hometown Schenectady, NY.

In the movie, that is.

I honestly thought it was hyper bowl....

Off to google synec (what is that?!)

I can honestly say I've never needed to discuss synecdoche in conversation so have never worried too much about how it's pronounced.

Definitely hy-purr-bol-ee

I've always said synec-dochay but am prepared for that being wrong!

I used to have a teacher who used to say 'kes-tee-onaire' instead of 'kwestchonaire' (i.e. how everybody else I've ever known pronounces it). Thoughts?

well you don't say 'kestion' do you?

Just looked up how to pronounce synecdoche - they're taking the piss surely?

m.youtube.com/watch?v=v-n1vGeVIXo

My fave weirdly pronounced words are Segue (seg way)
And chipotle (chip -ot-le) which for years I thought was Chip-oh-tull. It took the subway adverts to sort that one out.

I had a professor in medical school who used to pronounce "protein" like this: "pro-tee-inn." It really confused me, because it sounded like the way in which I would say the word "protean."

He was a native English speaker.

How about this word:
Porsche.

I say it like "Portia", and my husband thinks that I am being pompous, and that it should be pronounced "Porsh."

It's German so it's supposed to be Portia, but Brits tend to say Porsh.

Thank you, Sukey!

I'm por-sha but the a is shorter like in German. More a mixture of a and e.

It was a convention at prep school that if we wanted to get rid of something we used to hold it up and shout "quis?" and whoever wanted it would shout "ego" (pronounced eggo). If you're discussing the difference between the ego and the id, though, you'd be more likely to pronounce it eego.

Hairy yes that is a piss take, you should listen so some of the others they're hilarious