Delurking 1: Because we don't always check our e-mail.
Betsy!
Wow, it really is old home week here...
Well if we're going down that road, "foyer" is "foy-ay" not "foyerrrr", and "niche" is "neesh" not "nitch".
That's just correct though, right?
That's just correct though, right?
That's how I've always said them.
Right!
Well if we're going down that road, "foyer" is "foy-ay" not "foyerrrr", and "niche" is "neesh" not "nitch".
I didn't know people pronounced them any other way! Although I did run into a lady a few months ago with the last name spelled "Boucher," who looked at me funny when I called her "Mrs. Booo-sheeaaee" and told me that her name is Mrs. Butcher, thank you very much.
I pronounce them "fo-yerrr" and "nitch" if it's a little tucked-away corner of a room, and "neesh" if it's a metaphorical place that one finds themselves in life.
Heh. And Butterfly Boucher's last name rhymes with "sloucher."
Botetourt County pronounces its name body-tot. I tried pronouncing it as if it were French and no one knew what I meant.
I call that Tennessee Syndrome, Zenkitty. Lafayette, TN is pronounced la-FAY-ett, Milan, TN is MY-lan, Cairo is KAY-row.
I'm betting there are others, but those are the ones I can recall off the top of my head.