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?

hairykuri listen to their pronunciation of cappuccino. Pretty sure it's a piss-take.
CaoNiMerrilyOnHigh I can see how they would say psyche like that, since it took me about five re-reads to see what was wrong. I was saying it like a psych evaluation, rather than the female psyche.

I struggle with several car names. Audi was always oddie growing up, Peugeot was pew-jo. I try to say ow-di now, but still can't bring myself to say perjo. It's an Irish thing AFAIK, not just an individual thing.

totters back over to the history thread to discuss linguistics in a less aggressive manner...

MrsTP is your DF Welsh? loads of people in my area who say 'sangwich' and it makes me rage with fury inside every time.

is your DF Welsh? Scottish. It makes me 'rage with fury' as well. Why on earth is it so important? But it bloody is.

BratFarrar

my thoughts exactly but it always bugged me because she was just the sort to have gone to finishing school. So I assumed that maybe she had a good reason to be saying it that way. I've never heard another person say it that way though so I think she was just being idiosyncratic.

Almond.....I always pronounced the L until I read a thread on here. Now I don't say it at all because I don't want to be wrong but I don't want to say it without the L!

Why not? The letter h is silent in many words, after all.

So if you don't say sang-wich, do you say sand-wich!?

The problem is when you come across new words in books and not in everyday speech.

I pronounced gamut 'gamm-oot' until someone kindly burst out laughing and corrected me in front of a load of other people who probably knew how to say it too but were more polite than her.

My nephew pronounces biopic to rhyme with myopic. I've noticed other young people do it. It is WRONG.