Yes, but trying to tell convince Someone Who Will Not Be Wrong that they are wrong is all but impossible, just look in any thread on here for evidence of that 😆
W-hite….like Cool W-hip
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZmqJQ-nc_s[/video]
Had endless fun when we started selling a certain Andorran mtb brand.I heard,
Commonkal
Commercial
Comical
Cannondale (I kid you not…he pointed at the logo whilst saying it slooowly)
White, from the horses mouth as it were (or all their reps dont know how to say it)
Did have a chap ask for a “whytey” once in the shop I worked in and I assumed he was saying “YT” so explained they arent sold in shops, he then said “whats that then?” pointing out the T129 behind me…
Took me a minute to work out what the **** he was on about
Yes, but trying to tell convince Someone Who Will Not Be Wrong that they are wrong is all but impossible
Why even bother? The guy’s weird enough to think that “Whyte” is pronounced “whitey”: the best course of action is never to speak to him again. He’s clearly seriously deranged, and going out riding with him only runs the risk of ending up dismeboweled, skinned, and hung from a tree in the woods. HEED THE SIGNS.
Whyte and White in modern English are pronounced the same.
Below is taken from the Internet so it must be true:
Due to the Great Vowel Shift, the letter Y’s pronunciation was changed to “WI”, and by the time of the Middle English, Y had lots its roundedness and underwent synizesis assuming the same pronunciation as the letter ‘I’.
Well the Whyte rep I was riding with the other day kept referring to them as White so I guess he should know.
This. The OPs mate is a numpty.
That said, I’ve been asked for a ‘Rahleigh’ when working down south. Being from Nottinghamshire, 15 miles from the factory, I only know it pronounced as ‘Rally’ and I didn’t have a clue what he was on about.
My favourite pronunciation story was one of our investigating agents for the insurance company i worked for went out visit an irish lady from the travelling community in Essex to take a statement from her.
Her asked for her name and she said “with-an-e”, he thought he has missed the first part of her name and she was saying something like “Clare – with an e”
