Wednesday. How do you say it?

[Papa_Hotel]

I hear three main variations.

1. Wenns-day, favoured by newsreaders.
2. Weddens-day, favoured by most people I think.
3. Wed-nes-day, favoured by me. You know, cos it's spelt that way.

Newsreaders though, they have people telling them how to pronounce words. So is option 1 the correct version, with its silent "D"?

[CommanderJameson]

Somewhere between 2 and 3.

[Don]

Papa_Hotel said:

1. Wenns-day, favoured by newsreaders.

Newsreaders though, they have people telling them how to pronounce words. So is option 1 the correct version, with its silent "D"?

I'm not a newsreader but I say Wenns-day. So does everyone I know..

Maybe it's regional?

[Eric Mc]

Odin's Tag.

[sday12]

one

[Maxf]

1 - as does everybody I know.

[GTIR]

I don't know anyone who says 3, apart from you.

I do know someone who says "plarstic" instead of "plastic"

now that's odd.

[Parsnip]

Mix of 1 and 2.

I do however pronounce "croissant" as "cross-ont", cause im continental like that.

[Save Ferris]

Maxf said:

1 - as does everybody I know.

Same here

[fullbeem]

1 please Bob

[MrsNemo]

GTIR said:

I don't know anyone who says 3, apart from you.

I do know someone who says "plarstic" instead of "plastic"

now that's odd.

Ha ha. My dad does that! He also says envelope like its spelt onvelope!


This explains it all...

http://www.teachit.co.uk/armoore/lang/phonology.ht...

[Papa_Hotel]

Huh, it seems the Wennsdays have it. I should havee made this a poll. And asked for an indication of region.

[CommanderJameson]

Papa_Hotel said:

Huh, it seems the Wennsdays have it. I should havee made this a poll. And asked for an indication of region.

The preponderance of suvveners is wot does it.

Oop North we say things differently.

[AdeTuono]

We did 'Days of the Week' in our first term at school. Maybe wait three weeks until you go back and then ask teacher?

Can anyone here tie shoelaces?

[maximm]

has to be 1

[BoRED S2upid]

1 never heard someone say the first d.

[Papa_Hotel]

CommanderJameson said:

Papa_Hotel said:

Huh, it seems the Wennsdays have it. I should havee made this a poll. And asked for an indication of region.

The preponderance of suvveners is wot does it.

Oop North we say things differently.

Aye, that's probably it. Northern Irish living in Scotland, they're all Weddensdayers here.

[Papa_Hotel]

AdeTuono said:

We did 'Days of the Week' in our first term at school. Maybe wait three weeks until you go back and then ask teacher?

Can anyone here tie shoelaces?

Yes, you need to remove your hand from your cock first though.

[Plotloss]

The correct pronounciation is the one found in the OED.

Everything else, regional or otherwise is wrong.

HTH

[uriel]

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