Niche - how do YOU pronounce it?

Oh props to you my man. Very well said.

My opinion is to say it how everyone else where you live says it. If you try to be a grammartik, no one will know what you are talking about.

I used to live in Kansas City. It was "nichay" there. I live in Vegas now. It's "nitch" here. I adapted just fine, thank you.

(Vegans like things that rhyme with "rich")

 

What about microfiche? I always have pronounced it micro-feesh, not micro-fish.

 

Can't say that I have heard it that way here. Are you certain you weren't across the state line in Johnson county?

 

Oh man, the truth comes out. Yeah, O.P. actually. How'd you know.

I worked downtown off of McGee though, nice warehouse studio about a block north of the crown center. Also was employed on the plaza for about 18 months. LOVED the metro area. If I didn't have a kid I would have been in a loft in a heartbeat. SoHo south would have been walking distance to my work.

(BTW - can't say I'm enjoyed O.P. The place is like a big wannabe Beverly Hills without the ocean. Let's say I'm just happy to be in Vegas now.)

 

It's niish (or maybe neesh) here ...

 

How do americans pronounce quiche? Kit-sh??

I say NeeSH

my mate says Nee She

 

It really depends on how the person I'm talking to pronounces it.

I wonder what would happen if I was speak to a group of people...

 

It's "neesh," capiche?

I say "keesh," but my brain always momentarily thinks "kwitchay".

 

I pronounce it as "nee-tch-e"... hm, very wrong.

 

Just like with most other words, it was originally intended to be neesh, then the americans wanted to sound special and so they made nitch!

 

I say keesh

I think that's right

 

yeh, who cares, and its gone on for ages now. its clearly "neesh"

 

I know a lot of the really rich marketing guys who produce advice tapes etc. say nitch as in rhymes with itch but then again Americans usually pronounce French words differently. Perhaps it is the French-Canadian pronounciation?

 

I'm in Ohio and have always pronounced the word "nitch."

 

Nee-sh that is me anyhow

 

For christ sake, for those of you who say "Nichay", if it was pronounced like that, it would be Niché. I agree with MisterMix. You can say you're from wherever the hell you like, but if you don't say "Neesh" you're not speaking English.

Lee.

 

you say tamayto, we say toematoe

you say erb, we say herb, because there's a fucking h there.

anyways. My high school teachers in boston pronounced it nitch.

college professors in philadelphia pronounced it nitch, so that's the way I pronounce it.

I also speak french and I'm sure that neesh was they way it was originally intented to say, too late for me now though.

 

Guys lets rap it now now, there really is much more important things out there in the world than the correct way to say things.

Its a word that some of us say differently and some may get it wrong all together, everyone has their own way of talking, most of us generally understands what the other is trying to say.

 

If this was aimed at me, it doesn't make a point. I said if you don't pronounce it "neesh" you're not speaking English. You said someone from Boston and philadelphia say "nitch". You're point? They're American. America has it's own deformed version of English. So my point remains - not English.

If it wasn't aimed at me ... *Thumbs up*.

Lee.

 

i say neesh-ay also
Sounds french

just plain neesh sounds so wrong and unfinished.
neesh-ay just rolls off you tongue