Ee-ther or aye-ther?

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What's the proper pronunciation of "either?"

My girlfriend and I have been arguing about this for months.

[GOPisEvil]

1. Let's call the whole thing off.

:D

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

5. According to Merriam-Webster

They're both right. http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=either&x=0&y=0

On edit: Didn't mean to reply here.

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9. Yeah, my "There's no Zoo in Zoology" book says that

they are both right, but that aye-ther is pretentious.

By the way, all you hear on TV these days is aye-ther. You never hear ee-ther.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

16. On television, yeah, it's pretentious

But personally, I had to look up the right way to use aye-ther. I don't think most people know any better.

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17. HA!

Yeah, coming from a book like that...

;)

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

18. LOL, well, I've never seen the book.

From the sounds of it, it could either be a book for fifth graders or a coffee table book for yuppies.

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19. I use it as a bathroom book.

:P

[underpants]

11. Merriam-Webster is a shill to the corporate slave masters

:bounce:

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13. LOL nt

[SCDem]

2. Other

I actually use both pronunciations. It depends on where I use it in a sentence I think. If I use it in the middle of the sentence I say "eether" and if I start a sentence with the word I say "ayether".

[peekaloo]

7. I do just the opposite.

:crazy:

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12. Like, "And I ain't gonna take out the

trash just cuz you tell me to, ee-ther." :)


or "neither"

[peekaloo]

15. Well now you're just being difficult.

:D

[tjwmason]

3. Aye-ther

But does anybody actually say potahto rather than potayto?

[bridgit]

4. you mean like, "ee-ther you do it my way...

or you may chose between aye-ther of these two punishments?"

:shrug:

[Solly Mack]

6. If you finish this argument you'll just get into the nee-ther nye-ther

one...

[Guaranteed]

10. Yup, we argue that one, too.

:)

[Solly Mack]

14. I knew it!

Couples nitpick over the strangest things...

I speak as 1 half of a couple... :)

[kick-ass-bob]

8. it goes either way! :-D

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=either

has both pronunciations.