Yes – very like the last day of the week, sat-dee.
As do I. Southeastern US. Never heard anyone IRL pronounce the first “r,” other than some radio announcers. Merriam-Webster also shows that as the first pronunciation, which would seem to indicate that it’s the more common usage.
It’s Feb-roo-arr-ee. You can say “Bruce” and “brutal” right? So why the heck can’t you pronounce the second moth of the year correctly. The “R” is not silent.
…or month even…
And on the same thought, Wednesday has a fucking “D” in it. It’s not Wensday. Fuck.
Fuck – it’s Wensdee for me (and for most people speaking Australian English). So it has a fucking “D” in it, but not two fucking D’s.
Feb-you-ary here (grew up in Michigan, lived in Ohio most of my adult life). I think it’s a simple case of sounds getting glossed over when they’re in unaccented syllables.
And for the record, nu-cue-lar makes my skin crawl.
GT
Michigan? Well that’s gotta be the pronunciation capital of the world.
“It sure is hat today.”
“Would you like battle of pap with that?”
(I’m kidding folks… Merry Christmas. No ill feelings… OK?)
I pronounce it Feb-you-ary, unless I’m writing the word. Then I carefully pronounce it “Feb-roo-ary” in my head so that I will spell it correctly.
“Feb-ry” or “Feb-u-ary” (although the real pronunciation is “Throatwarbler Mangrove”.)
Wisconsin has names you’ll never get right if you didn’t hear them growing up. Michigan has alot of nasties as does all of Canada.
What are you talking aboot?
Feb roo air ee most often
Feb wary sometimes
Feb yoo airy if I’m tired.
Wed 'nsday
vej et uh bull
I live in a linguistics border area, so I flip back and forth on a lot of words. Sometimes it’s pronounced “fehb-you-airy” and sometimes “feh-brew-airy”.
Feb u air ee.
Some goofball desk clerk character in a Raymond Chandler novel “pronounced it the way it was spelled”, so you know that’s got to be wrong.
We’re talking Humphrey Bogart here. Get a grip.
I cringe every time I hear someone pronounce it Feb-you-ary. I say Feb-ru-ary because, I dunno, that’s the correct pronunciation. It seems to me that the mispronunciation is widespread, as I heard people say it that way all my life in the midwest, and I still hear people say it that way here on the west coast.
I do say Wensday, so I’m no pronuncitation snob, but for some reason Feb-you-ary skeeves me right on out!
What Eleanor of Aquitaine said. I was having a hard time figuring out how I actually pronounced it, until I saw her explanation. If I say them silently, but “sound” correct to me… but saying anything other than FEB-you-airy out loud just seems… unnatural. But, when writing it out, I think FEB-roo-airy.
FWIW, I grew up mostly in the Midwest, but spent my most formative years bouncing between there, a couple of brief stops in the South, and several years in the Southwest. I’ve got an odd collection of regionalisms.
Feb-roo-ary.
I also say Wed-ns-day, and gov-ern-ment
If Noclue or aha posted for “Feb ru ary” I’d ask, “Did your classmates laugh at you in grade school?”
‘Feb you airy’ - and I was born in it so I get to pick. It doesn’t bother me to hear ‘Feb roo airy’ but it’s not a pretty mouthful - same goes for ‘Wed nus day’ or ‘War chest er shire’ … oops, guess I’m going too far
hee.
I have heard (not often, praise Og) ‘Febber airy’. That displeased me.