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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is this actually a dialect thing? I'm pretty sure I switch between them both with no real logic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Same, but probably Eye-ther most commonly for me. From South east.

For some reason EE-ther puts me in mind of the west country

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Either is fine here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I see what you did there. Nice.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

It's either here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I would use both ways depending on context, but ee-ther by default.

I'm in Swindon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

EE-ther. Never heard anyone say the second

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Never heard of anyone say the second.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I've definitely said both as a speaker of General American. Gershwin even has it in a song lyric written in the 1930s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_Call_the_Whole_Thing_Off#Full_list_of_differences

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Either ee-ther or eye-ther.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

It's pronounced ether motorboats cloth and inhales deeply AWW YEEEEA!