do you say Neesh or Nitch?
Neesh
Like quiche.
Keetch?
Kwitch
Kwee-Tchay
quicky
A woman is eating alone at a restaurant. Her waiter makes some small talk, takes her drinks order, and brings over some nibbles. She’s friendly and the waiter thinks she’s flirting with him. She’s ready to order and thinks this is his chance, swaggers up to the table, leans over to her and whispers, “fancy a quickie?” She stands up, slaps him in the face and storms out of the restaurant. Someone from the neighbouring table says to him, “Ah, I think it’s pronounced ‘quiche.’”
“Neesh” which is the correct way to say it as far as I am concerned. It has Latin roots but the word “niche” is French and that is how they say it.
I pronounce it ‘neesh’ as well, but we’re going to get into trouble if we pronounce everything with French/Norman/Latin routes the way it is (or was).
Neesh.
I’ve never heard “Nitch”, I assume it’s a very niche pronunciation.
Nietzsche
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.
Knee-chee
Have you met his sister Kim?
Neeshjuh?
Rhymes with fiche, quiche and capisce.
“neesh” refers to something small, specialized, or insular and a “nitch” is a small recess in a wall, imo.
neesh for all purposes.
I’ve never heard anyone talk about a “nitch.” Maybe an US dialect?
Pronouncing it “nitch” is how biologists pronounce niche when talking about “that thing an organism does well to survive”
How American biologists pronounce it.
Everyone who has played through GTA 5 has heard the pronunciation “nitch” here: https://youtu.be/FlzZhGr8G9w?t=79
I (nonnative speaker of English) used to think it was pronounced neesh because my first language’s cognate (Nische) is pronounced similar to that. But since hearing that scene I know that’s not universally the case.
That is the first time in all my years that I’ve ever heard it pronounced that way, and now I’m wondering if I live under a rock.
Nietzche
Neesh interests
But don’t forget the nitch in the living room wall
Neesh
We are the knights who say… Neesh!
niːʃ
I say it more like nɪʃ personally.
Nooooo! Have mercy!
I have no idea what this spelling is called and I have no idea what any of the letters mean. Phonetic spelling? Regardless, it’s so intuitive to instantly know how to pronounce it.
IPA or international phonetic ale
Both, and I’m not sure I have a hard and fast rule saying when one over the other. It’s probably some sort of soft rule I’m totally unaware of.
But both are correct. (though Nitch is more american and Neesh is more british.)
I kind of combine them. Neetch. It’s kind of a niche pronunciation
