# A quickie poll: \[#1\]"WEEKend" or \[#2\]"weekEND"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 10, 2008, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quickie-poll-1-weekend-or-2-weekend/462951 "2008-09-10T15:51:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quickie-poll-1-weekend-or-2-weekend/462951/1 "2008-09-10T15:51:41Z")
I’ve noticed a creeping tendency in the media here in the U.S. towards the [posh?] British pronunciation of “weekEND”. You can call 'em #1 or #2, if you like. To all respondents: please identify the region where you grew up. If your pronunciation of the word has changed, please elaborate on that. To all non-Americans: your participation is welcome, but please identify your nationality. Thanks! FWIW, the American Heritage Dictionary lists only [#1] as an acceptable pronunciation. * * * WEEKend [#1]. East-coaster for life (first down South, now up North.) ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quickie-poll-1-weekend-or-2-weekend/462951/2 "2008-09-10T16:04:55Z")
WEEK-end. Northeast ---
**Author:** ![Engineer\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9fc29f/32.png) [@Engineer\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Engineer_Dude)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quickie-poll-1-weekend-or-2-weekend/462951/3 "2008-09-10T16:08:12Z")
#1 Southern Ohio - midwestern USA I’ll have to keep my ears open for the British #2 pronunciation of which you speak. All I can think of right now is John Entwistle singing the song _Success Story_ by the Who. He sings “I’m home for the weekend - I’m gonna make the most of my time”, and it’s a very exaggerated #1. ---
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quickie-poll-1-weekend-or-2-weekend/462951/4 "2008-09-10T16:36:10Z")
Don’t think I’ve ever heard the British pronunciation in America. Boston/NH area. None of my friends here say it either, and that’s NY, OR, midwest, and a variety of other places. Where have you been hearing weekEND? ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quickie-poll-1-weekend-or-2-weekend/462951/5 "2008-09-10T16:45:34Z")
Never heard #2 in my life - Born in NJ, lived in Atlanta, Central CA, and currently San Francisco. Never heard it on TV or in person. Joe ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quickie-poll-1-weekend-or-2-weekend/462951/6 "2008-09-10T17:10:09Z")
> [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](#): > > Don’t think I’ve ever heard the British pronunciation in America. Boston/NH area. None of my friends here say it either, and that’s NY, OR, midwest, and a variety of other places. > > Where have you been hearing weekEND? I don’t think I’ve heard it in person either, but lately I’ve been hearing it on TV a bit, and I’d never heard (or noticed) it before – OTTOMH I think there’s a white woman presenter on a celebrity-gossip show [“Entertainment Tonight”? one of those…] who does it, plus, IIRC, Terry Moran on “Nightline”. And this morning, one of the local program hosts (Brian Lehrer, very much an American) on the public radio station WNYC said it. I’m gonna have to start taking notes of when & where these crop up. ---
**Author:** ![Butterscotch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dc4da7/32.png) [@Butterscotch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Butterscotch)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quickie-poll-1-weekend-or-2-weekend/462951/7 "2008-09-10T17:15:25Z")
Number 2! I am English and I say it the second way. After all it is the end part that is important rather than the ‘week’ bit for those waiting for the week to end! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quickie-poll-1-weekend-or-2-weekend/462951/8 "2008-09-10T17:21:08Z")
WEEKend. I’m Canadian, in Southern Ontario. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quickie-poll-1-weekend-or-2-weekend/462951/9 "2008-09-10T17:22:11Z")
Always #1 unless I’m specifically stressing the difference between weekday and weekend verbally. I’ve lived in the LA area my entire life. ---
**Author:** ![lindsaybluth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90db22/32.png) [@lindsaybluth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindsaybluth)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quickie-poll-1-weekend-or-2-weekend/462951/10 "2008-09-10T18:21:52Z")
#1. Born and lived all but 2 years in Western PA, but raised by immigrant parents. #2 sounds ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![TupeloHoney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@TupeloHoney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TupeloHoney)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quickie-poll-1-weekend-or-2-weekend/462951/11 "2008-09-10T18:22:33Z")
I’m from the D.C. area, and I pronounce it as #1. But it’s more like a mix of #1 and #2. ---
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quickie-poll-1-weekend-or-2-weekend/462951/12 "2008-09-10T18:48:46Z")
Expat American from Nevada. I always used to say #1, but now I am about 50/50. Nearly all my friends say #2… these are people from UK, Ireland and South Africa mostly. ---
**Author:** ![Shrinking\_Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Shrinking\_Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shrinking_Violet)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quickie-poll-1-weekend-or-2-weekend/462951/13 "2008-09-10T19:13:25Z")
Brit here … I say weekEND but when I just induced my daughter (18) to say it she pronounced it WEEKend … But then she _did_ spend five days in New York in March, and came home speaking like a cast member of The Sopranos 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quickie-poll-1-weekend-or-2-weekend/462951/14 "2008-09-10T19:22:22Z")
[Loverboy] Everybody’s working for the WEEKend… [/Loverboy] ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quickie-poll-1-weekend-or-2-weekend/462951/15 "2008-09-10T20:16:11Z")
I feel like I don’t stress either syllable but if I had to choose, WEEKend. Northeast US ---
**Author:** ![LorieSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@LorieSmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LorieSmurf)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quickie-poll-1-weekend-or-2-weekend/462951/16 "2008-09-10T21:27:31Z")
WEEKend, from Oklahoma. ---
**Author:** ![Euryphaessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Euryphaessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euryphaessa)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quickie-poll-1-weekend-or-2-weekend/462951/17 "2008-09-11T02:43:11Z")
I say WEEKend. I’m from southwest New Brunswick, Canada. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quickie-poll-1-weekend-or-2-weekend/462951/18 "2008-09-11T03:15:52Z")
> [@Shrinking\_Violet](#): > > Brit here … > > I say weekEND but when I just induced my daughter (18) to say it she pronounced it WEEKend .. > > But then she _did_ spend five days in New York in March, and came home speaking like a cast member of The Sopranos 😉 :eek: Methinks she was either hanging out on the wrong island or with the wrong people… in Bergen or Hudson County [NJ]. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quickie-poll-1-weekend-or-2-weekend/462951/19 "2008-09-11T05:50:06Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > I feel like I don’t stress either syllable but if I had to choose, WEEKend. > > Northeast US Oh, thank god, it’s not me. I have no idea if _we_ stress week or end (or most other words threads get started about…). Maybe it’s a new england thing, who knows. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quickie-poll-1-weekend-or-2-weekend/462951/20 "2008-09-11T11:11:02Z")
NY, WEEK-end I’ve never in my life heard weekEND. Maybe I’ve heard WEEK-END. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-quickie-poll-1-weekend-or-2-weekend/462951.md?page=2)