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http://youpronounce.it/search.jsp?q=quay http://youpronounce.it/search.jsp?q=quay First video: American mispronouncing as "kay". Second video: American mispro

http://youpronounce.it/search.jsp?q=quay http://youpronounce.it/search.jsp?q=quay First video: American mispronouncing as "kay". Second video: American mispronouncing as "kway". Third video: Brit correctly pronouncing as "key". Otherwise, amazing!

dragonwriter 11y ago
Merriam-Webster lists all three of those as accepted pronunciations [0]; like many things in English, there is significant regional variation. [0] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quay http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quay
- hugh4 11y ago
  Is the word "Quay" even used in US English? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quay_(disambiguation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quay_(disambiguation) gives quays all over the UK, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Singapore, but none in the US -- with the exception of a couple of tiny landlocked towns in Oklahoma and New Mexico called "Quay". Are we allowed to call a mispronunciation a mispronunciation when it's only pronounced that way by people who have probably never encountered that word before?
TomSawyer 11y ago
Care to map the phonics path from quay to "key"? "kway" seems like the most reasonable pronunciation unless the letters are just meant to be strokes in a pictogram.
- minority-one 11y ago
  That's because what tantalor left out is that anglophones started misspelling that word in the 17th century, when it was actually spelled "key" from old French "kay". So it's not so much a word that you go "ah I'm so clever I can pronounce it right", but more one that you go "some people along the way started misspelling this too often and the people who knew better didn't do a good job in correcting them". And why should I know how to pronounce a word that current anglophones don't know how to spell? It's a tongue-in-cheek question, people.
vertis 11y ago
http://youpronounce.it/search.jsp?q=niche http://youpronounce.it/search.jsp?q=niche is also a bit like that.

dragonwriter 11y ago

Merriam-Webster lists all three of those as accepted pronunciations [0]; like many things in English, there is significant regional variation. [0] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quay http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quay

hugh4 11y ago
Is the word "Quay" even used in US English? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quay_(disambiguation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quay_(disambiguation) gives quays all over the UK, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Singapore, but none in the US -- with the exception of a couple of tiny landlocked towns in Oklahoma and New Mexico called "Quay". Are we allowed to call a mispronunciation a mispronunciation when it's only pronounced that way by people who have probably never encountered that word before?

TomSawyer 11y ago

Care to map the phonics path from quay to "key"? "kway" seems like the most reasonable pronunciation unless the letters are just meant to be strokes in a pictogram.

minority-one 11y ago
That's because what tantalor left out is that anglophones started misspelling that word in the 17th century, when it was actually spelled "key" from old French "kay". So it's not so much a word that you go "ah I'm so clever I can pronounce it right", but more one that you go "some people along the way started misspelling this too often and the people who knew better didn't do a good job in correcting them". And why should I know how to pronounce a word that current anglophones don't know how to spell? It's a tongue-in-cheek question, people.

vertis 11y ago

http://youpronounce.it/search.jsp?q=niche http://youpronounce.it/search.jsp?q=niche is also a bit like that.