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minus-squareBruisedMoose@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days agoMaybe it’s partly regional, but growing up it was always “nitch”. Like “Tom has really found his (nitch).” It only seems to have been making the transition to “neesh” in the last 10 years or so and it still sounds off to me.
minus-squareatomicbocks@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days agoIt’s originally a French word so I would guess that nitch is likely the more recent mutation.
minus-squareBruisedMoose@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoOh, I agree. The Frenchish version just wasn’t around me growing up.
minus-squarechunes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoYeah. “Nitch” didn’t show up until 1917 and got added to the Webster dictionary in 1961.
Maybe it’s partly regional, but growing up it was always “nitch”. Like “Tom has really found his (nitch).” It only seems to have been making the transition to “neesh” in the last 10 years or so and it still sounds off to me.
It’s originally a French word so I would guess that nitch is likely the more recent mutation.
Oh, I agree. The Frenchish version just wasn’t around me growing up.
Yeah. “Nitch” didn’t show up until 1917 and got added to the Webster dictionary in 1961.