Inspired by the recent coitus pronunciation thread:
On a local radio station, some guy hawking used cars keeps talking about getting good, cheap vehicles at his location.
He pronounces it Vee-Hickle.
I have always kept the “h” silent, so it sounds like Vee-Ickle.
How do you pronounce it?
(Oh, and feel free to add any other pronunciation questions in this thread and hijack away!)
I pronounce it with a silent h as well. Like icicle, but with “vee” instead of “ice”.
“car”
It’s vee-ickle unless I’m trying to sound silly on purpose.
Then it’s vee-hickle. Hyuk!
Veer-kul.
Vee’-i-kull
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“car”
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Me, too.
If I’m am required to use that word, I keep the ‘h’ silent, as in the OP.
My husband, the redneck, says ‘vee-hick-ul.’
I mock him mercilessly for this.
VEE Hickle, although the H is almost silent.
The “h” is there, but not stressed. Unless I’ve been around my cousins…then it’s Vee-Hickle.
Is anyone else flashing back to MAS*H’s Sgt. Zale?
It’s ridiculous, but I, and many other English people, say “VEH-uh-ckle”, which is hard to say.
A stereotype of the American accent over here is for people to say “veeHICKle”. There was an ad for kids’ toys on British TV that said, in a fake American accent, “A var-I-DEE of combat veeHICKles, with realIStuck MIL’tury duh-TAIL”.
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Is anyone else flashing back to MAS*H’s Sgt. Zale?
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Yes, and, coincidentally, Sgt Zale does a pretty good imitation of my pronounciation of the word.
vee uh kull
New - clee - urr
A word I hear almost exclusively from the AARP set: automobile.
I say VEE-ih-kl.
My father says vee-IH-tih-kl, and I’ve never for the life of me figured out why.