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So, how do YOU pronounce the word “niche”? As “nitch”, or “neesh”? See my pronunciation in the video below.
Let’s end this debate. It’s time to vote. Go here and cast your vote. If you want, make a video of yourself saying it and send me the link and I’ll post it here.
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Business Around A Lifestyle
The world changed on 9/11 in so many different ways. Since that day, there has been a major shift happening in the way people think and live their lives. Sure, many people still chase the dollar as their ultimate goal. However, many more people have begun to realize that the world could, well, end tomorrow.
That's why people are choosing to pursue a business around a lifestyle, instead of a lifestyle controlled by their business. It makes sense, right? If the world was going to end tomorrow, would you still try to live your life in a way you never wanted to?
Take a look around you and you'll see that this shift to becoming a lifestyle entrepreneur is being adopted by more and more people every day. Some of those people are falling into it because they have been laid off from their jobs and are literally forced into it. Some of those people just figure out a way to make it happen because of the "end of the world" thinking mentioned above.
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Hmm….I always pronounced it “nishay”….
in michigan, it is niche.
Jim,
Well, English first originated from England didn't it? Whether its British or American English, so I go with the rest of us in the UK and pronounce it 'neesh'.
It's 'neesh'. As in 'capiche'. Not 'capitch'. And there is no accent so it is not 'neeshay'.
Nitch
I vote nitch.
Nitch'e is correct the way I learned my English back in Germany ;)
The pronunciation is “Neesh”. As you know, Niche is a French word. In French, the pronunciation is like “Neesh”.
NITCH – for sure…
It's neesh, if we want to pronounce it the French way, and after all, it is a French word.
Sure, the French pronounce it “neesh,” but who really wants to follow the French?
“Nitch” is the proper U.S. English pronunciation (duno about the Brit's or Ausies hehe), NeechE (short “e” like in thE or hElp ) is the German pronunciation. Gee, there has to come a foreigner along to explain the Americans their own language. It's like my Hungarian girlfriend who was correcting my German ;).
You are German too? You are kidding, right?
I say NITCH, but then I also say KELTIK….and I have French, English and Irish heritage – go figure. But then, the US *is* the melting pot, is it not??? Or at least it used to be before everyone became so *&^%*)!! PC about everything. SEESH! or is it SITCH????
I pronounce it “Neeshe” and I'm in the UK if that makes a difference :)
definitely NEESH. No doubt in my mind.
ravinder
Thank you
I was completely convinced it was neesh to the point where I made fun of Paula Abdul on American Idol when she would repeatedly tell contestants “you found your nitch”. Then I heard another (more influential) American pronounce it “nitch” and I began to wonder if maybe I had been to hard on poor Paula.
I'm from the UK originally and now live in Canada. It seems to me that both pronounciations are acceptable, with nitch more commonly used in the US and neesh more common in UK and Canada. However, since it is a French word, I don't see the need to change the way it is said unless we have a difficulty as non-French speakers in saying it the same way (which we don't).
In sum, I vote neesh!
niche, niche, niche.
Where did the “T” come from ?
I live in the USA. I have never ever heard it pronounced neesh. I never knew this was even an issue. In fact I would not know what you were talking had I heard neesh. Here in the USA we say nitch. I think maybe you are speaking a different language. After all this is how different languages get started. Same or similar spelling but pronounced totally different way. I vote nitch.
I live in the US, and the ONLY pronounciation I've heard is neesh. Maybe it differs by region? im in the NW..
Aluminium – Al-you-meen-ee-uhm
Nuclear – Nee-oo-clear
Solder – Sol-der
Niche – Neesh
English, learn to speak it.
Niche is a French word. It is pronounced Neesh.
If you are calling it a Nitch, you are simply wrong there is no arguing that.
And stop calling Caramel Carmel while we're at it.
In Jerzey, eh? It's pronounced as "a-nitch" like you'z get from perzon ivy