Poll: How do you pronounce Spie?

[Maccy]

There was a post from him, quite a few years ago now, and he informed everyone at the time that it was pronounced 'spy'.

 

[antijoke]

I always pronnounced it as Spee.

 

[Elixir]

It's Spee.

If you put stuff in front of *ie it turns it into *ee.

E.g.
Die -> Birdie
Nie -> Beanie
Tie -> Bootie
Rie -> Brie
Lie -> Mollie

etc
etc

Disagree, I think if you add an extra syllable in front of it then it is as above... otherwise it is like Spy. Brie doesn't count because it's French, they pronounce things totally differently.

 

[h00fzilla]

I always imagined it being said with a sort of mock German "sch" beginning.

"Shpee"

 

[nydryl]

Tinker, tailor, solider,...

 

[Nitefly]

Schuh-pea.

 

[branddaly]

Spie to rhyme with pea.

 

[Daze]

Ben Spies? Pronounced Spees, therefore I take it Spie is pronounced Spee?

 

[Nitefly]

Ben Spies? Pronounced Spees, therefore I take it Spie is pronounced Spee?

Really? People have seriously been reading it as Spee instead of Spy?

 

[DreXeL]

Spie to rhyme with pea.

Ben Spies? Pronounced Spees, therefore I take it Spie is pronounced Spee?

It's Spy.

There was a post from him, quite a few years ago now, and he informed everyone at the time that it was pronounced 'spy'.

/thread.

 

[Glaucus]

Ben Spies? Pronounced Spees, therefore I take it Spie is pronounced Spee?

Spies is pronounced spys so therefore it's spy.

The chances are its derived from spy/spies

This is pretty silly thread.
The word doesn't exist and so it's upto spie to say, which apparently he already has.

 

[Raymond Lin]

I always thought it would be Spee tbh

When there are 2 consecutive vowels, you normally just pronounce the first vowel.

Thus, Spy.

 

[Scougar]

"Devil's Advocate". Pretty hard to tell from the spelling though...

 

[Pudney]

When there are 2 consecutive vowels, you normally just pronounce the first vowel.

Thus, Spy.

Disagree, I think if you add an extra syllable in front of it then it is as above... otherwise it is like Spy. Brie doesn't count because it's French, they pronounce things totally differently.

Piece.

 

[james.miller]

When there are 2 consecutive vowels, you normally just pronounce the first vowel.

Thus, Spy.

I dont suppose Louie counts as it's a name


are there any cases where words ending in 'ie' are pronounced 'eye' ?

 

[Bunka]

I dont suppose Louie counts as it's a name


are there any cases where words ending in 'ie' are pronounced 'eye' ?

Pie.

nuff said.

 

[Scougar]

I always pronounced it "Spee", but then I probably pronounce half the names in here wrong.

How things are pronounced and how people pronounce their family names are completely different. If a family chooses to say it differently, then that's how it will become.

 

[Pudney]

Pie.

nuff said.

Vie.

Lie.

Die

Tie

Edit: I like games of find a word for the sound

 

[Raymond Lin]

Piece.

I said "normally", and as with anything in the English language, there are exceptions.

Such as i before e except after c.

Except, for example "Neighbour.

Now, that is the generally rule, so is the 2 consecutive vowels pronunciation, so it is logical to presume that it is Spy, unless you apply the "exception' to this, but then why would you? Because if exception is the rule then it wouldn't be an exception in the first place, it would be the rule.

Ergo, it is Spy.

 

[Pudney]

I said "normally", and as with anything in the English language, there are exceptions.

Such as i before e except after c.

Except, for example "Neighbour.

Now, that is the generally rule, so is the 2 consecutive vowels pronunciation, so it is logical to presume that it is Spy, unless you apply the "exception' to this, but then why would you? Because if exception is the rule then it wouldn't be an exception in the first place, it would be the rule.

Ergo, it is Spy.

I thought the i before e rule actually had more exceptions than adherents to the rule (so QI taught me). Therefore the rule is a fallacy.