I mean 50 Cent the rapper.
Do you pronounce it ‘fiddy’ and is that how you think he or black people in general pronounce it?
You really need a third option: “Never said his name and likely never will need to.”
I figured those folks would not bother voting anyway.
I voted “fifty” even though I’m aware of the “fiddy” pronunciation as used by the rapper himself. I’m British though fwiw and I wouldn’t generally imitate American accents when pronouncing names.
I pronounce it fiddy because that’s how I’ve heard it pronounced. Fifty Cent just sounds comically pompous.
Raymond Luxury Yacht, but then again I am white.
Springtime, that is why I made the thread. I think the rapper pronounces it ‘fifty’. Just like I do. And most black folks I know. But I notice white people say ‘fiddy’ and I think they must think that’s how we sound!
ETA: Yeah, spark, I think I drop the f a bit. But definitely not ‘fiddy’.
It’s a little more of a T sound than a D sound, round here. And it’d be the same for him as for the coins.
I say “Fifty Cent” if I’m using his whole name; familiarly I might say “Fiddy”, but really as a joke.
ETA - I have heard Dave Chappelle say “Fiddy”, so it has the Black People Stamp of Approval. It’s like Good Housekeeping with a weave and no mayo.
“Fifty cents.”
It’s more like Fih-tee. And I say it the same way when I’m talking about money. Then again I’ve noticed I don’t talk like most white folks. North Memphis and all that.
Same.
Does that mean P Diddy’s name is really P Difty?
I have always believed that Dave’s ‘blaccent’* was a bit put on, though. I admit I may be ENTIRELY incorrect about that. But both he and Eddie Griffith have always struck me as being a bit ‘phony’ with the speaking voice. And Katt Williams too. And lots of other black comedians now that I think of it.
*Thank you monstro, for that word.
He says “Fifty”?!
but I am in the “he’s a douchebag and I never talk about him and if I did, I’d be making fun of him” camp.
I have a southern accent, so I sort of say fiddy anyway, except when I’m around yankees and have to put on my newscaster accent in order for them not to come down on me with the prejudices they deny having.
I’m saying it now, aloud. I want to back off on the ‘fifty’. I don’t think I say the ‘f’. I say ‘fi’tee’ I guess. He does too. He certainly doesn’t say ‘fiddy’.
+1
I opened the thread looking specifically for that option.
I voted “fifty” even though I am well aware that is uncool. But I have a strong aversion to people expecting me to remember and go along with pronunciations that they have made up out of whole cloth and the number 50 is pronounced Fifty.
I have to spell people’s names correctly every day, and when I read some of them out loud to them, without having heard it first, and I pronounce it as written, I sometimes get told “Oh, no, the L is silent” or they pronounce it with the vowels not in the order they are written. I have an even worse time when they say their name, I start to write it down (and they are enunciating every single syllable) and then they tell me the vowels go the other way around, which makes no sense at all, or that they have silent vowels added in there (for looks, I guess). I am old. I have a degree in English education. Do not expect me to pronounce things correctly if they defy the rules of spelling and pronunciation. You want to be called Fiddy or Fitty, spell it that way. Do not expect me to lisp.
I know, I know…curmudgeonly. I also have a pet peeve against people who think their special snowflake’s little lisp is so cute when he tries to pronounce his older sister’s name and gets it wrong that they start calling her by the lispy mistake instead of helping the kid learn how to speak. Why should their other special snowflake have her name, which she has had for years before the little brat came along, be changed just because he’s so darned cute? And for the years and years she gets saddled with this stupid nickname?
Ok, I’ll go take my meds now…
Fifty. I’d feel silly saying Fitty…it’s just not how I talk.
Though technically I’m not white. I’m South Asian, though for all intents and purposes, I guess I talk pretty white…
“Fifty”, I don’t do “fiddy” nor do I think that’s how most black people would pronounce it - though I imagine some of the people who do say “fiddy” think that.