Schedule pronunciation?
 

Lately, I've been hearing more and more people say it as shedule instead of sounding the c as I have been taught....skedule.

I was told it's a British thing, but it's seems to be gaining ground on tv and podcasts.

Which way did you learn?
It bugs me to hear it with a silent c.

Being from the south .... I pronounce everything wrong!

Skedule .... and if ya don't like it .... well .... tough schit :D

It's like they are so proud of their backyard shed or something. :)

That is the British pronunciation but in American English that would be a lazy pronunciation. To me it's still like Sketchers.

I studied dialects in college. I traced various English accents to how America was colonized. Of course things evolved with all the immigration influence. The conclusion was by the time people reached the west coast they lost most of the various regional dialects.

There are a lot of maps regarding this:
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It's strange because I think it was less than five years ago that I first heard it that way.

The south east states speak Gullah? :D

There are at least 3-4 ways of dis-pronuciations here in NC alone :D. I'm educated southern city drawl.... then ya gots "country drawl", hillbilly drawl, and on the Outer Banks (Harkers Island) they have a brogue that's unique to themselves....

Just that little sliver in SC's low country ....

I found this....

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skedge-ool

Out here in the colonies we say shedule.

I wonder if the British say....."I went to Shool to learn it" :confused:

No hard c sound at all?

Very small region including Hilton Head Island

That map is not all the impressive or accurate. In AL alone the dialect can vary county to county and sound much different than MS. GA is yet another that will vary from west GA to the coast. Yet they have it all lumped together.

It's not like from my visits.

My Spanish IV professor in college was from Madrid and his "thing" was proper enunciation .... until he gave up ;)

He'd spend 10 minutes with someone from "down east" having them "repeat after me" .... "Hola" over and over .... nope ... just ain't gonna happen :D

Around these here parts, it's pronounced sked-jou-ull... :p

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^^^ same here....but everytime I hear shed-jou-ull ....I wonder if my hearing is going bad. :)

Oil .... a one syllable grunt or a fancy schmancy two syllable Oy-yul?

I grunt :D

My Spanish II teacher in high school was from Mexico and she was almost 5ft tall and thin and cute.
She called me Esteban.
I can't speak Spanish at all.:)


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What always seemed weird to me was Lieutenant.

The British say lef-TEN-ənt, not Loo ten-ant.

^^^ Here ya go....
I never heard that before now.

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In the fire service, it's simply "lew"....

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Peecan or Pahcan?

Skedule. 🤷🏽

Pahcon.

Tomato or toemater?

Not at all. Just shed dual is how it sounds.

|Up here we often use "LT".

Yep, that's another.

We have some others we use but, can't say them on here.:D

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I vaguely remember my father referring to someone in WWII as a second louie.

Now I want a shrimp louie.

^^^ I've never had shrimp Louie....but I've had shrimp Diane.
Yumm!!

Peecan or Peecon ... Pahcan?

Everybody tawks funny that ain't from around here!

And now, for fun, they've got me saying al-oo-min-ee-um instead of aluminum.

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Just know that you're now standing with science, the chemists that rule on such things (worldwide) and, in fact, the guy that first isolated the metal.

Some 19c "english major" with his wordy-describy book chose to use -um rather than -ium...

I've always wondered why Colonel is pronounced as though it was a piece of corn.

Here's one explanation:
"The word "colonel" originates from the Italian word "colonnello," which means "column of soldiers," and was first used in English in the 16th century to refer to a military rank. The French translation of the term, "coronel," became the source of the modern pronunciation, which is why it is pronounced as "kernel" in English. By around the 17th century, the word began appearing in military treaties across Europe. So, the written form of the word (colonel) and the spoken ("kernel") were both being used. In English, a combination won out."

My childhood neighbor, basically my second mother, is from Iowa. On Sunday she was busy worshing clothes, unless the Dallas Cowboys were playing the Worshington Redskins.

Yeah man regional accents can be a real puzzle. I once knew a guy from west Texas. I barely understood every other word.

In the US we say soder. In CA and the UK they say 'solder'.
Seems like a lot of people have an idear about this and that.

You warsh 'em... then you arn them :)!

And vacation in Hiwahya :D

I've just thought of something. We say sked-due-ling but also say shed-dual. Kind of odd when you think about it.

Aww sumabith, I'll have to check my lawerer's shedual.
(can you mix them in a single sentence? :D )

I don't remember ever hearing 'solder' and I've been in CA quite a few times.
It does make sense with the spelling.