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• Auteur du sujet Auteur du sujet Kookland
• Date de début Date de début 1 Octobre 2006

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Kookland

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Scotland, English I tend to pronounce it "Weddensday" which is not uncommon here in Scotland. Does anyone else pronounce the "d" in "Wednesday"?​

ash93

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London England, United Kingdom - English but can speak Urdu, Memon and Hindi personally I always pronounce it "wenesday" although it is not uncommon to pronounce it " weddensday, wed-nesday, wensday or wenesday" hope thats helpful to you

foxfirebrand

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The Northern Rockies Southern AE "WENZ-day" when it stands alone, and often "WENZ-dy" in phrases like "Wednesday night." Hell, I probably pronounce it the second way 90% of the time. . . A

Alxmrphi

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NW England UK English 100% agree with FFB. I hate the fact it is spelt the way it is, it isn't said like that! O

Outsider

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Portuguese (Portugal) I learned to pronounce it with a silent "d", and that's what I hear most of the time, but of course I'm not a native speaker. It's interesting to know that there are varieties of English where the "d" is still pronounced!

Gordonedi

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Strathaven UK (Scotland) English

Kookland a dit: I tend to pronounce it "Weddensday" which is not uncommon here in Scotland. Does anyone else pronounce the "d" in "Wednesday"?​ Cliquez pour agrandir...

Me too, but I'm also in Scotland !

timpeac

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England English (England)

Outsider a dit: I learned to pronounce it with a silent "d", and that's what I hear most of the time, but of course I'm not a native speaker. It's interesting to know that there are varieties of English where the "d" is still pronounced! Cliquez pour agrandir...

Yes - I was unaware that anyone pronounced the "d" too. Comes from "Woden's day" as you are probably aware. M

maxiogee

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English

Kookland a dit: I tend to pronounce it "Weddensday" which is not uncommon here in Scotland. Does anyone else pronounce the "d" in "Wednesday"?​ Cliquez pour agrandir...

Yes. I never did understand why the word is consistently and universally misspelt We don't spell Thursday as "Thrusday", or Saturday as "Satruday", so why do we misspell Wedensday as "Wednesday" D

dwipper

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Iowa, U.S. U.S. English Personally, I'm a /ˌwɛnzˈdeɪ/ person. But I found an interesting note in Oxford--it's from the Old English wōdnesdæg, but more importantly is related to woensdag in Dutch. It seems that the Dutch pronunciation may have found its way into common English usage. P

Porteño

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Buenos Aires British English I personally pronounce the tail end of all the days as a Latin 'i' and not 'ei' as you do dwipper; e.g. mundi, tiusdi, uensdi, thusdi, friedi, satadi, sundi, which I think is probably how most people do it.

timpeac

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England English (England)

Porteño a dit: I personally pronounce the tail end of all the days as a Latin 'i' and not 'ei' as you do dwipper; e.g. mundi, tiusdi, uensdi, thusdi, friedi, satadi, sundi, which I think is probably how most people do it. Cliquez pour agrandir...

Not round where I come from (Southern England) - I remember we used to have a teacher that pronounced it like that and reading out timetables saying "group A mundi wenzdi frydi" etc he used to have kids taking the mickey out of him behind his back. In fact, I always thought such a pronunciation was just him until it became clear from these forums that others pronounce it that way too - since then in terms of southern English I wonder if it is a generational difference. P

Porteño

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Buenos Aires British English That's the way I learnt in SE/BE, albeit rather long before you were born, timpeac.

eleve

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India Telugu I would like to share a point that the modern spellings are derived from their ancient forms after a lot of phonological changes. According to the phonological phenomenon called "syncope", we are bound to spell it as wenz-di. Please find more about these under the concepts of metaplasm. I hope this information proves useful to evryone.

GEmatt

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La Côte, Switzerland English/BE, Français/CH, Deutsch/CH (rustier & rustier)

Alex_Murphy a dit: 100% agree with FFB. I hate the fact it is spelt the way it is, it isn't said like that! Cliquez pour agrandir...

I love the fact that it's spelt the way it is. It's heritage. I always pronounce it WENZ-day, though...never the -di variant.

nzfauna

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Wellington, New Zealand New Zealand, English Usually [WENZ-DAY]. Rarely I will say, [WED-INZ-DAY], but the D is every so slight.

Einstein

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Milano, Italia UK, English I'm from the south-east of England, b. 1949, and have always pronounced "day" as "day", whether alone or as part of Monday, Tuesday etc., but my father (b. 1913) used to say Wenzdi, not Wenzday. PS This is probably part of an older British tendency to compress vowels. I say "secretary", while my father would say "secretri". Remember Harold Macmillan saying "The winds of change are blowing in the African contn'nt". Dernière édition: 1 Juillet 2008

nzfauna

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Wellington, New Zealand New Zealand, English Actually, my Dad (63) does that for some days too (the -di suffix). He is a Kiwi, but had one Scotland-born parent, and one NZ-born Scottish parent - I don't know if that matters. P

Porteño

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Buenos Aires British English

Einstein a dit: I'm from the south-east of England, b. 1949, and have always pronounced "day" as "day", whether alone or as part of Monday, Tuesday etc., but my father (b. 1913) used to say Wenzdi, not Wenzday. PS This is probably part of an older British tendency to compress vowels. I say "secretary", while my father would say "secretri". Remember Harold Macmillan saying "The winds of change are blowing in the African contn'nt". Cliquez pour agrandir...

I would agree with your father. It would appear to be partly a generational thing and perhaps educational. I was born in 1936 and was taught RP at a public school. Vous devez vous connecter ou vous enregistrer pour répondre ici. Partager: Bluesky LinkedIn WhatsApp E-mail Partager Lien

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