I’ve never heard anybody pronounce it that way, and since we regularly tell children to “sound it out” to spell things I am going to go ahead and say no to adding letters personally.
It would make me cringe asf but similarly I would remember policing how people use words to uphold some „purity“ of language is mostly BS and your time can be spent in much better ways.
policing how people use words to uphold some „purity“ of language
A lot of other languages besides english have institues dedicated to doing that exact thing. In spanish it’s the Royal Spanish Academy (La Real Academia Española).
It is commonly pronounced both ways in the US, imo both pronunciations are correct.
I’ve never heard anybody pronounce it that way, and since we regularly tell children to “sound it out” to spell things I am going to go ahead and say no to adding letters personally.
As an American if someone said “nitch” out loud I would secretly die inside and then do my best to remember this:
It would make me cringe asf but similarly I would remember policing how people use words to uphold some „purity“ of language is mostly BS and your time can be spent in much better ways.
A lot of other languages besides english have institues dedicated to doing that exact thing. In spanish it’s the Royal Spanish Academy (La Real Academia Española).
“Nitch”