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How do you pronounce medicine?

126 replies

Natsku · 24/10/2022 16:18

In AIBU because handy poll function.
In DD's english (as a foreign language) lesson she was told that medicine is pronounced med-sin, with no i sound in the middle but I have never heard anyone say it like that. So how do you pronounce medicine?
YABU = med-sin
YANBU = med-i-sin/med-e-sin (not really sure how to write out that pronunciation)

OP posts:
MavisChunch29 · 24/10/2022 16:42

Medsin people are the same ones who say nucular and Draclea.

ladycarlotta · 24/10/2022 16:43

medsun

Jimmini · 24/10/2022 16:44

Med-sin is correct. The three syllable version is an Americanism

MavisChunch29 · 24/10/2022 16:44

Gararrj music. Hilarious.

pinkpotatoez · 24/10/2022 16:45

Medasun

Derrymum123 · 24/10/2022 16:45

Meyd- i -son
Gar ujj

ZeroFuchsGiven · 24/10/2022 16:45

MavisChunch29 · 24/10/2022 16:44

Gararrj music. Hilarious.

😂

queenofthewild · 24/10/2022 16:47

Both!

Doctors study medsun

But if DS was feeling unwell I'd offer him some med I sin.

MavisChunch29 · 24/10/2022 16:47

Back when I did GCSE History, part of the syllabus was called Medicine through the ages. It was never pronounced Medsin by anyone in 1992. I got an A. Thread over.

AryaStarkWolf · 24/10/2022 16:47

Med-eh-sin

notsosoftanymore · 24/10/2022 16:50

I'm with @queenofthewild both

What is draclea? Never heard it.

Garage to rhyme with barrage

Could have no could of

South Londoner here!

PAFMO · 24/10/2022 16:50

Both pronunciations are correct, it's an elided/silent syllable which happens in words where the vowel sound of a specific syllable has no word stress applied to it and so has the neutral/weak schwa pronunciation. If you listen carefully, the elided syllable in "medicine" and the elided syllable in "chocolate" are pronounced in the same way.
I've got a list of the most common somewhere that I analyse with my students- "vegetable" and "comfortable" also being on the list.

trelliskeeper · 24/10/2022 16:52

med a sun

my mum says med sin and it drives me mad

MavisChunch29 · 24/10/2022 16:53

I say veg-e-table and com-fort-able though. It's just clear speech, whereas medsin and choclit are lazy speech.

BlodynGwyn · 24/10/2022 16:53
SweetyGreen · 24/10/2022 16:54

Hold on. How are you lot pronouncing chocolate?

Choc-lut
Med-sun
Veg-tuble
Comf-tuble

purpleme12 · 24/10/2022 16:57

SweetyGreen · 24/10/2022 16:54

Hold on. How are you lot pronouncing chocolate?

Choc-lut
Med-sun
Veg-tuble
Comf-tuble

Yes pretty much

PAFMO · 24/10/2022 16:57

MavisChunch29 · 24/10/2022 16:53

I say veg-e-table and com-fort-able though. It's just clear speech, whereas medsin and choclit are lazy speech.

How do you say "camera" or "every"?

You may not like elided syllables, and non native speakers certainly don't - but they are just another perfectly correct feature of connected speech and how word and sentence stress in English work.

ghostyslovesheets · 24/10/2022 16:59

Med-a-sun - Midlands via Liverpool

FuzzyPuffling · 24/10/2022 17:01

Med- sn

fairtrauchled · 24/10/2022 17:01

Med i sin
Choc lit
Cam ra
Ev ray
I'm in Scotland

FuzzyPuffling · 24/10/2022 17:01

MavisChunch29 · 24/10/2022 16:42

Medsin people are the same ones who say nucular and Draclea.

Utter tosh.

WhoopItUp · 24/10/2022 17:03

OP people have different accents and pronounce things differently. We need to move away from prescriptivist views of language.

FuzzyPuffling · 24/10/2022 17:05

Garaahjz. Can't actually write how I say it. The final letters are very soft.

Riverlee · 24/10/2022 17:05

med -de-sin, so I pronounce the ‘d’ twice!

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