Pro-fuze-ly or Pro-fews-ly

[Charlieandthechocolatecake]

I just need to know. I always used to use Pro-fuze-ly but anti-English-language DP insists pro-fews-ly is the only way to go. I've been using his version since.

Were not married yet, together 9 years, 2 DS's. That said I'm happy to LTB if he's right. I couldn't put up with knowing I'm wrong. This will break us.

If I am being unreasonable, I will go ahead and sign up to the Open Uni and pick English over Education Studies.

Kind Regards.

The latter?

Latter.

The latter for me.

Pro-fewes-ly

The latter.

The latter. Definitely.

Pro-fews-ly, with the second syllable being very short.

Not quite sure what the question is. Do you mean with an s or a z sound? I wouldn't notice either alternative, really, though I'd probably say s myself.

Second one.

Pro f use ly. No z sound.

The way you’ve written it, they would both sound the same, but if my interpretation is correct then your DH is right.

The middle syllable rhymes with loose, not with lose.

How did you imagine the vote buttons working?

He's right

"Use" but when you use it to say "no use" rather than as I used it earlier in this sentence 😂

I assumed
Pro-fuze-ly = Yanbu
Pro-fews-ly = Yabu

Yabu

The latter, I wouldn't know what word you were trying to use if I heard you say the former.

The latter for me too. Sorry OP.

I hear the lone parents board is useful

OP says the fuse bit as in 'fuse box'

Or use as in 'I use Mumsnet' when most seem to say use as in 'you won't get much use out of that'.

No z sound. It's pro-few- slee

prof-YOOSE-lee

S not z. Thinking about it, I think words with 'use' in them often have a z sound when they are verbs, and an s sound when they are nouns, adjectives, adverbs etc - like use, abuse, diffuse, which have s or z depending on part of speech.

Second syllable rhymes with puce when I say it.

Pro-fews-lee (like Bruce Lee)

"S" not "z".

I never heard this word used as a kid and would have read UZE. However as an adult, if I was thinking about it rather than slipping into my background vernacular, I'd use EWS.