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4d ago

do you say either or either?

because i say either

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Either works, really.

Neither
- Best answer to the question here. Neither either of either is right (or wrong).

Neither. I say either.

either

Yanny

I don't. I say either.

Ironically, either of them depending on the situation. Sometimes I even express the concept that I am indifferent to the choice between two things or happy with both of them by saying "ee-ther, eye-ther"
- I definitely use them both together more often than just one. Like you, to express indifference to a choice.
  I don't tend to do that with neither though 🤔 and now I'm thinking too hard, I don't know which I tend to go with.

yes

Context-dependant.

Eye-ther mostly, but like with many words I'll alternate between pronunciations! (You still won't catch me pronouncing "decals" like dee-cals though!)
- I can't tell if maybe you're joking, but is there another way to pronounce decal? I could in theory imagine someone saying it like "dick-al" but that seems unlikely.
  
  "Deckles", rhyming with "speckles".
- Weird, I didn't know people pronounced it dye-cals /s
- if you don’t mind me asking, what country are you from? I’ve heard people from the us say ee-ther and dee-cals

In my head I pronounce it as "either", but out loud I pronounce it like "either"

So you say both then?

I don't say either.

Tomato tomato.
- I say this in real life, but when I say it I pronounce it the same both times.

Whichever one you say, I say the other one.

Either either or either, depending on maybe the context or the phonetics of words used. Kinda like how you say the or the depending on if the next word starts with a vowel or not.
- Either Either or eIther

Eye-ver

There's multiple ways up pronounce it?
- Eee-ther or eye-ther
  
  There is an Irish rural accent that pronounces it AY-ther.
- There's even a classic jazz song about it.
  Let's Call The Whole Thing Off https://youtu.be/J2oEmPP5dTM
  
  Oh god of course. I actually don't know how that slipped my mind.

I'm in either camp by default, but I'll gladly use either if around other people that do

I say ether. Every once in a while I find someone infuriated by that, and it gives me much joy.

Growing up, I self-taught myself to pronounce this word as "Ee-ther". Then I went to a private teacher and learned that the correct English pronunciation is "Eye-ther". Then I also came to know that the word can be pronounced in both way regarding different accents. Then I stopped caring which pronunciation I was using while speaking. Most of the time, I say "Eye-ther". I utter the later one barely.

Yes.

Ee-ther and nye-ther

Data or data?
- I say Data when I'm taking about the character, but I say data when I am talking about the information.
- Like day-duhh, day-tuhh, day-tahh, d8-ahh, d8-uhh, d@-uhh or d@-ahh?
- Data

eye-ther

Probably eye-ther, but eee-ther on random occasion

Either one really

Eye-ther or ether depending the crowd I'm around

I use either either and neither neither nor neither either.
- To clarify, that's ether, eyethur, kneethur, nyetheir, kneethur ether, respectively.

I say tomato

Neither.

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