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minus-squareBruisedMoose@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 个月前Maybe it’s partly regional, but growing up it was always “nitch”. Like “Tom has really found his (nitch).” It only seems to have been making the transition to “neesh” in the last 10 years or so and it still sounds off to me.
minus-squareatomicbocks@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 个月前It’s originally a French word so I would guess that nitch is likely the more recent mutation.
minus-squarechunes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 个月前Yeah. “Nitch” didn’t show up until 1917 and got added to the Webster dictionary in 1961.
minus-squareBruisedMoose@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 个月前Oh, I agree. The Frenchish version just wasn’t around me growing up.
Maybe it’s partly regional, but growing up it was always “nitch”. Like “Tom has really found his (nitch).” It only seems to have been making the transition to “neesh” in the last 10 years or so and it still sounds off to me.
It’s originally a French word so I would guess that nitch is likely the more recent mutation.
Yeah. “Nitch” didn’t show up until 1917 and got added to the Webster dictionary in 1961.
Oh, I agree. The Frenchish version just wasn’t around me growing up.