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How is the name typically said/ used: Jeffery or Jeffrey?
...in the three-syllable form of Jef-fe-ry OR in the two-syllable pronunciation of Jef-frey?
I know both are used BUT which is more commonly heard... 2 or 3- syllables?
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Re: How is the name typically said/ used: Jeffery or Jeffrey?
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ditto- i have only ever heard people say jef-free
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Ditto.
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ETA: I don't think most people in certain regions have heard it pronounced in the 3-syllable manner. However, that does not mean it doesn't exist. My question above just wanted to know for this region what's more commonly used/ heard.
As the poster below from the UK expressed. Jeffery AS WELL AS Jeffrey DO both exist. Just one is used more than the other depending on where you are.
Yes, the spelling does change the number of syllables. Just like Katherine is actually pronounced with three-syllables, so is Jeffery.
OP: In the UK Jeffery is the more common spelling and it would be pronounced with three-syllables. In the US, Jeffrey is probably the more common spelling, but I think you'll find most Americans are quite inept at speaking their own national language--either spelling will probably be pronounced with only two-syllables here in the States.
So, if you wont take the time to educate everyone on the three-syllable pronunciation, spell it Jeffrey, pronounce it with two-syllables, and you wont have a bunch of confused people on your hands.
um no.
DD is "Catherine" and it is two. In the US, its two.
Its not an "inept" thing. Get over yourself. Its simply how things are now pronounced. Like "aunt" can be prounced differnetly with different accents.
Now, my friend's name is Catherine and we pronounce it Cath-er-ine. Another friend of mine's name is spelt Kathryn and we say Kath-ryn. There's the difference in the two or three syllable pronounciations.
Now perhaps over time many have said Catherine really fast such that a two-syllable sounding name was produced. Kind of like contractions (which are just shortened ways of saying a longer word) in language arts.
Not to offend anyone here (read my edited post above) but I think it has a lot to do with exposure. This is only to say, please don't assert that something doesn't exist just because you haven't seen or heard of it... just humbly explain what you know!
well its hard to have an opinion when we don't know where you live.
But in the US, the vast vast vast majority of people would never pronounce either of those with 3 (even if you happen to know one person who says Catherine with 3) I will say that I've lived abroad and have never heard Jeffery with 3, but I imagine it might happen some places.
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Actually, I think it's neither here nor there about where I live (which is actually in the east coast US yet I do have some West Indian and British ancestry). I don't feel the answers should be tailored to where I live. I simply wanted to know what you all primarily hear (which for the majority of you seems to be here in the US).
And guess what! It's fine if most of you understand it to be two syllables; I just want it to be understood that another pronunciation per spelling exists too and that that way of saying it is not wrong either.
Just because a pronunciation is commonly heard here, or anywhere else, does not mean that it is a correct pronunciation--how many times in your life have you heard 'orangutan' pronounced or-ang-ah-tang? It's the most common pronunciation in the United States and yet, it's phonetically impossible for orangutan to be read or-ang-ah-tang. Common? Yes. Wrong? Absolutely.
Regional dialects are no more "correct" than any slang term. In many areas, particularly Southern states, the word 'wash' is pronounced warsh, worsh, or wosh--none of those pronunciations are correct, though they might be accepted variations. Again, it is phonetically impossible for an R sound to suddenly appear in the middle of the word.
I grew up in Arizona--there were pronounced the word 'antennae' more like an-tan-ah. It wasn't until I moved to Chicago and studied linguistics in grad school that I even realized I was mispronouncing it all my life.
The third syllable in Jeffery exists. If spelled in that way, no matter where you live and how you want it to be pronounced, it is still a three-syllable name, though you might hear it pronounced two. American English is full of mispronunciations--for that matter, so are the local dialects of many parts of the UK--but no matter how arrogant you find me, that wont change the fact that they are not correct.
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you are completely missing the point. So with that, I'm moving on.
Good luck OP trying to get people to pronounce that with 3. I do not mean that in a snarky way.
Yes, nevermind too!
I'm now realizing that you misunderstood my question and commentary as well. I'm not trying to get the three-syllable pronunciation from a two-syllable name. But thank you anyway. I learnt something new from your above post.