Interesting - do you find that’s the way most people in your region pronounce it or did you pick it up elsewhere? (TV/film?)
I’m in the e (like in ether) crowd. IMHO it sounds slightly pretentious.
Let’s call the whole thing off.
I pronounce it (EEE-thurr): “i • ∂ɝ”
The other common pronunciation (EYE-thurr) would be “aI • ∂ɝ”
The gas has a different TH sound: “i • θɝ”
Either.
I switch between them. Both have a voiced th sound. Ether the gas is with an ee sound and an unvoiced th, just as AHunter3 posted.
Brit speaking, with me it depends on the context.
I vor you do such and such.
Or its eeeeever him or me.
i live smack in the mid of west and somehow i do the brit pronunciation.
i wonder how the hell THAT happened…
Either way.
Either with either an I or an E. :dubious:
My accent is a mixed bag so I couldn’t tell you - brought up in Birmingham (Midlands) and worked 20 years in London with people from all over, so it’s anybody’s guess, but it would be wrong to say all people in the UK say Ither. The Queen might, but her accent is hardly typical.
Let’s call the … oh, dammit Reality Chuck. You join the board a week before me, and now you beat me to a feeble joke! I’d call for pistols at dawn, but you’ve probably challenged me to a similar duel already. You’ve probably already won, so I’ll just go rest in peace.
Other – eether or iither, never ether, according to Esther.
I can do it either way, with “I-ther” being used most commonly for emphasis. The tendency is even stronger with neither.
Same.
Either way, but with a bias toward I-ther.
Other - both ways, and until it comes out of my mouth I don’t know which it will be.
Other. Both ways.
Yes, the difference between the “th” in “either” vs “ether” is whether it’s voiced or voiceless. It’s the same distinction as between “d” and “t”, “b” and “p”, “g” and “k”, “v” and “f”, “z” and “s.” All those pairs are articulated the same way, except that the first is voiced, and the second is voiceless. It just happens that in English, voiced and voiceless “th” have the same digraph representing two different sounds. (This isn’t that unusual. If you notice, the “s” used to represent a plural in English has two different pronunciations, either unvoiced “s” or voiced “z.” Compare the “s” in “pots” vs the “s” in “pods.”)