Mimm Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 I tend to mispronounce words sometimes. My vocabulary comes is from reading so while I may know plenty of words, I'm a little shaky on how to say them. I always pronounced sieve like it looks: seev. But now we're memorizing a poem and I looked up the pronunciation just to be sure and it's apparently pronounced with a short vowel sound: siv. That sounds weird to me but I must say that I never say the word in my daily life. We would say colander or flour sifter, depending on how big the item in question is. So is "seev" used by anyone or did I just make that up? :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
posybuddy Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 We pronounce it "siv", with the short vowel sound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in KY Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 /siv/ over here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mama Geek Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 Siv is how I have said it and how my profs in my college soils class said it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinder Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 I pronounce it siv. I checked Merriam-Webster online and it shows siv. But I can see how you'd think seev---like grieve. Not sure why it would be different. Cinder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawana Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 /siv/ here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newlifemom Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 /siv/ here. This Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawana Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 If might make sense to think of it in relation to "sift- to pass through a sieve". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gwenhwyfar Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 'siv' here too. don't worry about it though - i know exactly how you feel. i was 20 when i said 'bifocals' in front of my best friend and he cracked up laughing at me - i'd never actually heard anyone SAY it and i pronounced it bif-a-culls. ...and i'm not telling how old i was when i found out that 'arkansas' is not ar-kansas. :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmoira Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 Siv The one I *alway* mess up is skein. My 8yo corrects me with a little too much gusto. :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nukeswife Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 Another vote for /siv/ here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thescrappyhomeschooler Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 Yep, my grandma used to /siv/ her powdered sugar. That's how I learned to pronounce it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BikeBookBread Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 Another "siv" here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Food4Thought Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 I read it as seev in my head, and then translate it to the proper 'siv.' I have trouble pronouncing words if I only read them too. My husband gets a kick out of correcting me for my slaughter of spoken language. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mimm Posted October 8, 2010 Author Share Posted October 8, 2010 I guess I'm the only one then. :) My kids are annoyed because they think seev sounds better than siv in the poem. :p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostSurprise Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 Seev here. I also a large reading-only vocabulary but I would swear I've heard actual people say /seev/ and only heard /siv/ in movies. I live in the upper Midwest though and my mother says borrow instead of lend and washclosh. Who knows what kind of bad habits I've picked up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrothead Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 'siv' here too. don't worry about it though - i know exactly how you feel. i was 20 when i said 'bifocals' in front of my best friend and he cracked up laughing at me - i'd never actually heard anyone SAY it and i pronounced it bif-a-culls. ...and i'm not telling how old i was when i found out that 'arkansas' is not ar-kansas. :tongue_smilie: I said bravado as brav-a-doo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leighp Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 Oops! Looks like I've been saying it in my head wrong too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 Siv, short vowel. I pronounced 'misled' as 'MY-zuhld' (stressed first syllable with a long 'i', followed by a schwa in the second syllable) when I was a child. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gooblink Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 Yes, "siv," but I always have to think about it. :) I used to think ethereal was pronounced ether-reel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaissezFaire Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 /siv/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garga Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 I tend to mispronounce words sometimes. My vocabulary comes is from reading so while I may know plenty of words, I'm a little shaky on how to say them. I have the same problem! Don't ask me how to say ladle. lay-dul, or lad-ul? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mabeline Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 Yup, I say /siv/. I was in college when my room mate corrected my pronounciation of tastes. I had always turned it into a two syllable word /tast-tes/. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonflyAcademy Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 I've always said "Seev" :blush: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haiku Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 I say "siv," as in, "I have a mind like a steel sieve." :D Tara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmoira Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 Siv, short vowel. I pronounced 'misled' as 'MY-zuhld' (stressed first syllable with a long 'i', followed by a schwa in the second syllable) when I was a child. Laura Me too! Though I was thirty before someone was "kind" enough to point it out to me (it's still a source of amusement for DH). I knew there was a word miss-led, I guess I just never wrote it. I feel a bit better knowing I'm not the only one. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unsinkable Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 siv, as in: "Hey, ya sieve, shut yer 5-hole!" (See the pic below to get the context!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted October 9, 2010 Share Posted October 9, 2010 It is siv but why is it siv? A child might look at sieve and think the double vowel "ie" was a digraph that would make the "I" long. Or look at the final e and think it must have a function as part of a split-digraph in making a long vowel sound. So what does a "phonics expert" (which I am not one) tell a precocious child who wants to know? Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unsinkable Posted October 9, 2010 Share Posted October 9, 2010 Yup, I say /siv/. I was in college when my room mate corrected my pronounciation of tastes. I had always turned it into a two syllable word /tast-tes/. Imagine my shame as I pronounced Descartes exactly as it is written (as a college freshman...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babysparkler Posted October 9, 2010 Share Posted October 9, 2010 /siv/ here. :iagree: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teachaheart Posted October 9, 2010 Share Posted October 9, 2010 It is siv but why is it siv? A child might look at sieve and think the double vowel "ie" was a digraph that would make the "I" long. Or look at the final e and think it must have a function as part of a split-digraph in making a long vowel sound. So what does a "phonics expert" (which I am not one) tell a precocious child who wants to know? Bill The short i sound is one of the three sounds of ie. The final e is there because English words don't end in v. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tohru Posted October 9, 2010 Share Posted October 9, 2010 huh. My dad is French and he always pronounced with a short E like seven, rather than a short I...interesting. I wonder if it's regional/national. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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