2017年11月22日 · The reason Nike has a diphthong is that long [iː] was diphthongised into [əɪ] and then [aɪ] as part of the Great Vowel Shift—but this happened in English, after the words were borrowed. Later borrowings just adapted to the already existing ones. So English Nike was probably pronounced [ˈniːkε] or [ˈniːkɪ] up until the 1500s.

Lots of people pronounce it differently, because they've seen it written and heard other people pronounce it differently, and either don't know better or just want to fit in. IMO young people are more likely to pronounce it correctly (Greek-style) because they are more exposed to the culture around sportswear and clothes brands generally, but ...

2012年6月14日 · There’s no simple answer to any question of the form “How is <letter>/<digraph> pronounced?” It depends. As you’ll have seen in the Wikipedia article, what would have been pronounced /ai/ in Latin is usually pronounced /iː/ in English, but there are inevitably exceptions like the name Æleen, or examples like paedophile where the British rendering /iː/ goes through …

2021年9月22日 · I've only ever known Nike to be pronounced as /ˈnaɪki/. Recently, I've heard many BrE speakers exclusively read the brand as: /ˈnʌɪk/. Do all BrE speakers pronounce Nike in this way? Is it a regional ...

2020年10月25日 · The mark on the letter "ë" and other vowels like it can actually be one of two things: A mark of vowel-fronting (often called an "umlaut," which is the term for the process).

But just as English speakers often pronounce /I/ in the first syllable of example and exemplary, it would also be typical in an English pronunciation of Latin (the type of pronunciation whereby "stare decisis" rhymes with "vary the crisis") to use /ɪ/ in the first syllable of exempli gratia. –

2024年4月3日 · How can I pronounce @ symbol: At / At the rate? The "at mark", "at sign", or "at symbol" is its usual name. According to Wikipedia its official name is "commercial at". Can I use it in a sentence? Please explain with an example. It has no function in English sentences.

2010年8月22日 · The only reason 'Nike' should be pronounced to rhyme with 'spiky' rather than 'bike' is because Nike chairman Philip Knight has confirmed that that's the correct way to pronounce the brand's name. If he'd said 'It's homophonous with 'luxury yacht', that would have been the correct pronunciation. –

I'm in Canada. Typically I pronounce it "ee-ther." I do notice a lot of American television dialogue uses "eye-ther," and American English has influenced Canadian English pronunciations since the radio and television age. I say "me neither" (as in 'neether').

As for why the word pronounce has an O between the two N’s and pronunciation does not, it is unclear, but both words derive from French, pronunciation from pronunciation and pronounce from pronuncier. There is probably some variation in the way the different word stress affected how the words were spelled after being borrowed into English.