How do you pronounce medicine?

[Natsku]

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)

Choc-co-lit

Medsun . London

I say MED-s'n. North of England middle-class upbringing, but lived in southeast for 20 years, if any of that's relevant.

Unless it's "medicine ball", in which case I say MED-i-s'n ball. No, I don't know why.

I also say CHOC-l't. Sticking an extra syllable in there makes me feel like I'm over-pronouncing, the way someone does when they're speaking a foreign language. Or like I'm channeling Yogi Bear talking about a pic-a-nic basket.

Interestingly, the dictionary entries for "medicine" and "vegetable" show the elision to be optional:
/ˈmed(ə)sən/ /ˈvedʒtəb(ə)l/
whereas for "chocolate" and "every" it's not:
/ˈtʃɒklət/ /'evri/

The final sound in "garage" if you pronounce it with the long /a:/ vowel is as rare as hen's teeth in English- doesn't occur in many words and never at the beginning. (measure, leisure, pleasure etc contain it)

I say med i sin and choc o lat.

Simple. It's "meds"

Med-e-sen. I'm not bothered by the other pronunciations of it though. Unlike 'choclit' . The elision of the 'o' is fine. It's the 'it' bit that grates.

Med-sun/sin (in the middle of those vowel sounds!).

Geordie. Lived in London for more than a decade but I’m very sure I say it the same way I’ve always said it.

Why? Is the OP the Princess of Wales?

I do that too

Syllable elision is more common in RP.
If you listen to Boris Johnson (sorry, I know that's a thankless task) say "Coronavirus" he says something like "cronavase".

Weirdly, the way I say it depends on context. The subject studied at university is always Med-sun but the course of antibiotics or cough linctus you take when you are ill is Med-I-sin.

No idea why. I'm from a medical family if that explains it?

From the north
med sun
garaarge
scone rhymes with cone
chock lut

Metathesis and elision are quite different, and in most cases in English, newly-appearing metathesis is a deprecated language feature, while elision occurs at all prestige levels (possibly in different ways).

That's not showing the elision of the syllable after VEG to be optional, which I think is the elision the PP meant — i.e. saying VEG-t'bl rather than VEG-uh-t'bl.

Incidentally I wish IPA was taught in schools, widely understood, and easy to access via phone keyboard; it would make these types of conversations much easier 😅

MED-uh-sun.

Medsun is very smug and irritating, like when people say Brufen or Iber-rufen instead of ibuprofen, or Tortuss instead of tortoise (see other recent thread!). I’m right and anyone who disagrees is wrong <gavel>

Sorry, yes, you're right, was getting blinded by brackets!

I do agree though, I bloody love phonetics and phonology and it makes my job a lot easier!

Same here (surrey)

Or rather Meh - Duh - Sun.

Meh - Di - Sin, maybe, if I was thinking about it, but that sounds wrong.

Brufen is just a brand name like Calpol or Anadin.

Med-sun
Choc-lut
Veg-tuble
Ga-ridge

And scone rhymes with gone

I'm from NW England

Medsn.

Med-sun.

Live in the NW, raised in the SE and have Australian parents

Brufen is just the brand name, like Calpol or Panadol.

Is there an echo in here?

Oh the Bloody Mary Poppins song is in my head now. FFS.