To NOT say Miss-CHEE-vee-ous?

[MerryMarigold]

So ds1 AND ds2 both claim 'Mischievous' is pronounced thus. I do not say it like this and it is causing problems for ds1 who struggles in spelling at the best of times (it's on the Y6 spelling list ). He keeps spelling it 'Mischievious'. I have told him if he said it properly he would probably spell it right, but he (and ds2) said 'all the teachers' say it this way, so now I am doubting the way I was brought up by my well-spoken (but occasionally mistaken) Mother.

She says, and I learnt, 'MISS-cha-fus' (stress on first vowel and ending like 'superfluous'). Is that wrong?

I think I could just about handle 'Miss-CHEE-vous', but not with the extra 'ee' in it.

So, what do you say? And are you right?

notsure

FWIW the one I cannot stand is 'Issue' when pronounced 'Isss-you'. It's 'Ish-oo'. Like 'Tissue'. Stop it.

Um, I pronounce issyou and tissyou the same way. Attishoo is only mentioned in ring a ring of roses.

Nope, I say Munday, Teeyousday, Wed-nes-day, and so on.

Issue

Iss-you, or Ishoo?

Mis-chee-vee-ous sounds more mischievous, somehow! Naughty but kind of charming with it!

I only ever heard it pronounced the wrong way growing up. I only learnt the correct way a couple of years ago despite knowing how to spell it.

Mis-chee-vee-ous sounds more mischievous, somehow! Naughty but kind of charming with it! smile

Haha hadn't spotted the irony of pronouncing 'mischievous' mis-chee-vee-us-ly

From: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/mischievous

The word mischievous has three syllables,mis-chie-vous, with the stress on the firstsyllable: [mis-chuh-vuh s] (Show IPA). There is a common tendency to shift thestress to the second syllable and say orwrite the word as if there were an extraletter i after the v, turning it into a four-syllable word: [mis-chee-vee-uh s] . These alterations of the pronunciation (andsometimes even the spelling) may occur inpart because in many English words ie ispronounced like ee, as in chief, in partbecause many words end with [-ee-uh s] spelled either -ious (as in devious) or -eous(as in aqueous), and in part because ofconfusion over where the second i in theword belongs. The Oxford EnglishDictionary reports that for some time in theevolution of the word—from about thesixteenth to the eighteenth century—mischievious was actually a fairly standardalternative spelling. Today, however, boththe four-syllable spelling and the four-syllable pronunciation are generallyregarded as nonstandard.