# How Do You Pronounce Vehicle? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 6, 2006, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-vehicle/359646 "2006-06-06T18:07:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-vehicle/359646/1 "2006-06-06T18:07:23Z")
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!) ---
**Author:** ![Lama\_Pacos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Lama\_Pacos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lama_Pacos)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-vehicle/359646/2 "2006-06-06T18:08:26Z")
I pronounce it with a silent h as well. Like icicle, but with “vee” instead of “ice”. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-vehicle/359646/3 "2006-06-06T18:12:43Z")
“car” ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-vehicle/359646/4 "2006-06-06T18:16:04Z")
It’s vee-ickle unless I’m trying to sound silly on purpose. Then it’s vee-hickle. Hyuk! ---
**Author:** ![Szlater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Szlater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Szlater)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-vehicle/359646/5 "2006-06-06T18:47:42Z")
Veer-kul. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-vehicle/359646/6 "2006-06-06T19:19:00Z")
Vee’-i-kull ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-vehicle/359646/7 "2006-06-06T19:23:33Z")
> [@vetbridge](#): > > “car” 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- **h** ick-ul.’ I mock him mercilessly for this. ---
**Author:** ![Mayo\_Speaks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mayo\_Speaks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mayo_Speaks)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-vehicle/359646/8 "2006-06-06T20:12:58Z")
VEE Hickle, although the H is almost silent. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-vehicle/359646/9 "2006-06-06T20:17:55Z")
The “h” is there, but not stressed. Unless I’ve been around my cousins…then it’s Vee- **H** ickle. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-vehicle/359646/10 "2006-06-06T20:18:10Z")
Is anyone else flashing back to M_A_S\*H’s Sgt. Zale? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-vehicle/359646/11 "2006-06-06T20:36:41Z")
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”. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-vehicle/359646/12 "2006-06-06T20:59:29Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > Is anyone else flashing back to M_A_S\*H’s Sgt. Zale? Yes, and, coincidentally, Sgt Zale does a pretty good imitation of my pronounciation of the word. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-vehicle/359646/13 "2006-06-06T21:01:02Z")
vee uh kull ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-vehicle/359646/14 "2006-06-06T21:33:48Z")
New - clee - urr ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-vehicle/359646/15 "2006-06-06T21:38:34Z")
A word I hear almost exclusively from the AARP set: automobile. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-vehicle/359646/16 "2006-06-06T22:04:20Z")
I say VEE-ih-kl. My father says vee-IH-tih-kl, and I’ve never for the life of me figured out why.