Right my clever little Pedants, can you please sort out this argument betweeen DP and I?

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DP always says vica versa

Whereas I believe the correct term to be vice versa

Am i wrong?

it is vice, but pronounced vicer

vice versa

Never mind that - your title should say DP and ME !!!

I knew someone would pull me up on my grammer or something

I was just thinking that. And then I wasn't 100% sure....

but it's between DP and ME!

as Lulumama says about pronunciation - vic-er

but it's between DP and ME!

as Lulumama says about pronunciation - vic-er

OOPs

Why is it Dp and Me and not I?

I've picked that one up off mns. The rule being if you can take the other person out of the sentence and it still make sense its correct

(one handed typing)

See, now I am even more confused than when I first posted. How do you no when it is I or me?

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Except in this case it still doesnt make sense

so, why is vice pronounced vi-cer...that doesn't make sense....

and the me/I think....hm...you lot confued me now, and I wasn't even confused about that before I read this thread, lol

It's cos it is forrin'

The way I remember it is as follows...if the word, 'I' can stand alone, then it is correct to say, 'dh and I', otherwise it would be, 'dh and me'.

So, you wouldn't say, 'argument between I' hence you know that it is correct to say, 'argument between dh and me' !

Imagine you were saying "can you sort out this argument for me". You wouldn't say "for I", so when you add dh you still say "me" - same principle applies to your thread title

Actually I've always spelled it vice but pronounced it 'vicey'. But that may have been a pronunciation exclusive to our family; I was surprisingly old before I discovered that nobody else called insects 'wiggers'

Vice versa.

He may be convinced it is vica due to pronounciation over time.

A friend has an ex-wife who was utterly adament that she was going to buy "Chester draws" recently. "chest of draws, surely?" said he. "Nah. Chester draws. Chester draws. Like that place up norf"

She has always pronounced them "chesta draws" not chest of draws.

vice versa

vica versa

That would be chest of drawers not draws!

on the OP (rather than the obiter comments on her thread title...come come ladies) - I'm not sure which is correct but, if you think about it, it's virtually impossible to (really) say vice versa (as opposed to vica versa) unless you make a very artificial stop and intake of breath after vice. I wager that even if in your mind you're saying vice versa and dp is saying vica versa there's a hair-breadth between them that a listener would struggle to detect.

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is vice versa latin? Just trying to work it out, and if it is is vi-cer the latin pronounciation, because I always thought that Latin is kind of a phonetic language...
but I don't know anything about these things, of course, lol...saying that, than , I suppose, it should be vi-ze versa....lol...

if you;re going to pronounce it in latin wouldn't it be vee-chay?