Schedule: Skedule or Sshedule?

[bottolololcks]

I hope the title makes sense - I'm not a native speaker

In my new job, this word is used quite a lot but I see people pronouncing in two different ways and I don't know which one I should use. I need to chose one and stick with it.

Which one do you use and why?

[Keepithidden]

@CaptainMyCaptain

Leftenant is English
Lootenant is American

Thank you! I'll still forget, but I'll save this thread!

[PurBal]

My pet peeve is Brits saying Sk rather than Sh. Should be Sh in the UK. Sk in the US.

And also what @WomensLandArmy

[Pixiedust1234]

@ClemmyTine

I say skedule, skolar and skool..

Same here.

DD says shedule though

[TheGenerousGardener]

@EstherHazy

I say 'sk' but I know a lot of people say 'sh'. I say 'nego-she-ation' where others say 'nego-si-ation'.

I don't know if there's any regional element on it? I have a fairly middle class home-counties England accent (went to non-prestigious private school which probably had an impact, my dad is from Essex but I have none of his accent and my mum is from London and I've pick up some of her 'bloomin' nora' style expressions).

I don't think there's a lot of judgment on it (unlike, for example, people who say 'three' as 'free' do get some judgment against them unfairly) - so just pick what you find easier to say :)

Not a regional thing. Skedule is American English, schedule is British English.

[Borgonzola]

Could schedule, should schedule. That's how I remember it.

[TheIsleOfTheLost]

Sk for me. I am generic "English" accented and middle aged. Never knew that the way I pronounce is American. I can't find it in myself to care and will carry on.

Skon not scone too.

[bottolololcks]

For the one who judge silently: do you silently judge non native speakers too?

[Workinghardeveryday]

@Marynotsocontrary

This.

Also agree. In my first office job years ago I was pulled up for pronouncing it the American way as I am not American they wondered why 😬

[WomensLandArmy]

@bottolololcks

For the one who judge silently: do you silently judge non native speakers too?

No, because that would make me a twat.
HTH

[Schmutter]

As others have said. UK pronunciation is shedule. But my kids, like others, say the American skedule 🤨

[NeverDropYourMooncup]

@Keepithidden

I have a similar problem with 'lieutenant'. Native English speaker and trainee pedant! I know one is English and one American but never remember which one is which.

The French Leftenant's Woman - English

Lootenant Columbo - American


Frankenstein brings Adam/The Creature to life in his la-bor-a-tory, speaking in an English accent and filmed in black and white (we'll ignore the fact he's Genovese born in Naples and modelled upon the author's English husband).

Bobby 'Boris' Pickett and the Cryptkicker Five did The Monster Mash with the ghouls coming from his labra-tory in the castle east to the master bedroom where the vampires feast to get a jolt from his electrodes.

[Magpiecomplex]

One of my students recently wrote it as shedule (no c) and pronounced it skedule, which I found interesting.

[banivani]

I say skedule and have Irish heritage but have grown up abroad. Im honestly not sure if it’s American influence or common in Ireland but I think the latter? I think dr Geoff Lindsey talks about it in one of his videos but in passing. It might be this one but I’m not sure.

[PatsyJStone]

Always said it how is being described as American but I've been around long before the internet and any other so called influences! I'm English.
Don't understand how negotiation could be 'si ation', Does anyone say influen si al, international si a nal, unless they are e.g. French, Spanish.
But I don't get worked up or too bothered. Interesting though

[Grassisbluer]

@banivani

I say skedule and have Irish heritage but have grown up abroad. Im honestly not sure if it’s American influence or common in Ireland but I think the latter? I think dr Geoff Lindsey talks about it in one of his videos but in passing. It might be this one but I’m not sure.

I'm not sure how common one version or the other is in Ireland, but, for what it's worth, I'm Irish and say Shed-ule.
(I don't think that is the right video to explain this, must be one of his others.)

[WildCherryBlossom]

I am British and say Skedule. I'll put it down to having a Canadian English teacher at primary school,

How about eye-ther or ee-ther ?

L-eye-doh or lee-doh?

[youmustbemad]

When someone asks which I say I can never remember. It's like my brain goes totally blank as soon as I start thinking about it. It is possible that i use both. I'm usually really pedantic but this one is just a weird blind spot for me.
I never ever judge non-native speakers for pronunciation, though I can be judgy with native speakers. (DH insists on several odd pronunciations which drive me up the wall.)

[sanityisamyth]

@Paesano

Shedule is the British pronunciation. Skedule is American.

This.

[GreenWhiteViolet]

I say skedule and lootenant. The latter probably because I suspect I first heard the word on Star Trek as a small child.

[Dogsarebetterthanhumans]

I grew up with two university linguists (my father a professor and mother a lecturer) as parents and language and linguistics was big in my house. I learned how stuff was pronounced by different people for different reasons which is actually really interesting.

’Sch’ is the correct English pronunciation .
’Sk’ is the US pronunciation.

Another one that people struggle with is ‘issue’ or ‘issues’. This is correctly pronounced ‘ish-yOO’ not ‘ish-SHOE’

I don’t judge people who pronounce things differently as we are all brilliantly the products of our environments. X

[EstherHazy]

@Dogsarebetterthanhumans that's the best post on here!!

There's your answer, OP - 'sh' for traditional British but most people really don't judge and a good chunk evidently nowadays say 'sk' as all these things change over time naturally :-)

[banivani]

@Grassisbluer

I'm not sure how common one version or the other is in Ireland, but, for what it's worth, I'm Irish and say Shed-ule.
(I don't think that is the right video to explain this, must be one of his others.)

Ah feck it, so it must be. Well they’re all worth a watch, so.

[bottolololcks]

and how about sCHemes?

[supravit]

@WomensLandArmy

No, because that would make me a twat.
HTH

I think it makes you a twat either way.

[follyfoot37]

@HVPRN

Skedule!

noooo! Unless you are not native British