I’ve always said “skizzim”. I’m getting emails and seeing postings saying it should be “sizzim”. Dictionary.com says either way is acceptable. Webster says you can also say “shissim”. I say there is a schism here.
I’ve always been fond of “disirregardless,” because if you going to abuse the language why not go all the way?
[Ya, I'm hip to that, Cheryl. Heh.]
OH, and guys…don’t ever use the word “IRREGARDLESS.” It ain’t a word. Well, Webster’s might say it is but it’s totally non-standard.
It’s a portmanteau (combo) of:
irrespective
regardless
I hear smart people all the time saying it and it makes me cringe.
I think most people say skizzim, and I do too, but I’ve seen that sizzim is probably the more traditional and proper way…conservative way if you will.
I would never say “shizzim.” That’s what Captain Marvel or Gomer Pyle say, I think…
Yeah, that’s always been a huge debate…is a word correctly pronounced just because a lot of people pronounce it that way? Prescription vs. description: the former being how it SHOULD be and the latter being how it actually IS. I think in that sense Webster’s is more of a descriptive dictionary.
Dave Insurgent of ‘Reagan Youth’ used to pronounce it ‘skizzum’ too but a punk rock/hard core affectation is one thing – so called educated political pundits getting paid more than I’ve ever made to mispronounce ‘big’ words is another.
Imagine how annoying it would be if everybody had been pronouncing ‘bus’ ‘bouce’ the few thousand times we’ve heard the phrase ‘thrown under a bus’ during this presidential campaign.
I say tomayto, potayto, and so on, simply because I believe the single consant second t after the a in both cases calls for it. I also think Stephen should be pronounced as stefen.
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I’ve always said “skizzim” as well.
This is really nitpicky, though.
June 5th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
I say “skizzim,” too. It’s chasm that I’m never sure about. Though, it might help if I looked it up…
June 5th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Merriam-Webster says: *si-z*m, *ski- also *shi-; among clergy usually *si-.
Language prudes are everywhere, all of them convinced there’s a right and a wrong and it’s all cast in stone, just like Miss Crabtree taught them in school, when the truth is that language evolves and today’s “mainstream” English, whatever that is, will be tomorrow’s archaisms.
You dig?
June 5th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
You say either and I say eyether.
You say neither and I say neyether.
Either, eyether, neither, neyether.
Let’s call the whole thing off.
You say tomato, I say tomahto.
You eat potato and I eat potahto.
Tomato, tomahto, potato, potahto.
Let’s call the whole thing off.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ3fjQa5Hls
June 5th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Yeah RC, you know I dig it man. I had a Mrs. Crabtree in high school. She was the matriarch of the Crabtree family.
‘mouse, that song was a nice touch to this thread. :-)
June 5th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
The sunglasses were cool for 1937, weren’t they?
I don’t know if he’s much of a dancer/singer but Colmes kind of looks like Fred Astaire. You’d have to look a long time to find another “Ginger Rogers” to pair with him for a modern version of this though.
June 5th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
Yeah we are picky on how we pronouce our county around here. Our county is pronouced one way and another county across the river in another state is pronouced another. Both are spelled the same and are close enough where we get the same media coverage.
June 5th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
I say tomayto, potayto, and so on, simply because I believe the single consant second t after the a in both cases calls for it. I also think Stephen should be pronounced as stefen.
June 5th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Dave Insurgent of ‘Reagan Youth’ used to pronounce it ‘skizzum’ too but a punk rock/hard core affectation is one thing – so called educated political pundits getting paid more than I’ve ever made to mispronounce ‘big’ words is another.
Imagine how annoying it would be if everybody had been pronouncing ‘bus’ ‘bouce’ the few thousand times we’ve heard the phrase ‘thrown under a bus’ during this presidential campaign.
June 5th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
I think most people say skizzim, and I do too, but I’ve seen that sizzim is probably the more traditional and proper way…conservative way if you will.
I would never say “shizzim.” That’s what Captain Marvel or Gomer Pyle say, I think…
Yeah, that’s always been a huge debate…is a word correctly pronounced just because a lot of people pronounce it that way? Prescription vs. description: the former being how it SHOULD be and the latter being how it actually IS. I think in that sense Webster’s is more of a descriptive dictionary.
June 5th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
OH, and guys…don’t ever use the word “IRREGARDLESS.” It ain’t a word. Well, Webster’s might say it is but it’s totally non-standard.
It’s a portmanteau (combo) of:
irrespective
regardless
I hear smart people all the time saying it and it makes me cringe.
June 5th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
I’ve always been fond of “disirregardless,” because if you going to abuse the language why not go all the way?
[Ya, I'm hip to that, Cheryl. Heh.]
June 6th, 2008 at 4:08 am