Poll: How do you pronounce advertisement?

[TommyTenToes]

2 because it is the correct way.

Indeed.

 

[QlimaxUK]

4. com-mer-shal



EDIT: or option 5...

SP-AM (spam)

option 3 was in post #2, if anyones wondering

 

[SiD the Turtle]

Well the first way is how the yanks say it - I speak the Queen's English, which for a Frenchman is rather ironic but funny at the same time

I actually find that people who learn English not as their main language speak it better, as it's textbook correct rather than the diluted, yet more common tongues we speak across the country.

 

[PaulyD]

Number 2 of course!

 

[~D~]

1. It seems most logical to me as 'advertise' is similarly pronounced.

But if 2. is the Queen's English pronunciation then I shall try and make myself say it this way from now on

 

[geekyEd]

I actually find that people who learn English not as their main language speak it better, as it's textbook correct rather than the diluted, yet more common tongues we speak across the country.

True for some places, but it very much depends on the teacher. I have a friend who recently did a years English teaching in Germany as part of his degree. The teacher used american English and would constantly correct him when he (my friend) was teaching the class our "proper" language.

 

[crunchee]

1.

 

[QlimaxUK]

H

try and say that then!!!

 

[loltim]

1.

 

[geekyEd]

H

try and say that then!!!

aitch?

 

[SiD the Turtle]

H

try and say that then!!!

I say 'haych', but my dad (one of the aforementioned non-native English speakers) contends it's pronounced 'hetch'. He also pronounces comb with a non-silent b though, so I wouldn't put much stock in his pronunciation

 

[willhub]

And how do you pronounce "tis", tis, or tise?

Cause if you go tis then yer sound like a farmer.

 

[RDM]

aitch?

This. Though Hiberno English pronounces it as haitch. Can be used as a shebbolith in Northern Ireland.

 

[Dev2]

1. Not because of the associated Americanism but rather because it isn't the British way.

I'm Irish. We just do the opposite to the Brits.

 

[Steve2000]

The proper way i.e. option 2.

 

[Mr. Anderson]

ad⋅vert
2  /ˈædvərt/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [ad-vert] Show IPA
–noun Chiefly British Informal.
advertisement.
Origin:
by shortening

I am an informal British man I'll have you know
Also proof that the long version that sounds like you are saying advert-is-ment is also a proper way.

 

[llewellyn]

2.

 

[Stuff]

Thanks to whichever mod/admin added the poll

 

[r2d2]

wow I never realised I did it the american way haha.

 

[TAC4U]

I don't really use it as a term but I suppose I use the American way. It's abbreviated so often as to make it irrelevant.