[Misc] Schedule or Schedule

[Simster]

Schedule. Defiantly.

This, the other one is American.

Same goes for secretary - the English (i.e. correct) way of pronouncing this word is to shorten the end so that it sounds like "seck-ret-tree". The long drawn out way is the shit American way.

 

[el punal]

I use both - not sure if there is any rule to it.

Yes there is. Schedule is the correct English pronunciation.

Skedule is something that the newbies across the Atlantic Ocean would say, or vee-hic-al, or aloominum, or Annartica.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Schedule is the only correct answer. Skedule is for Americans and English souls who think a crisp k at the start makes them sound well spoken

 

[mikeyjh]

Schedule is the only correct answer. Skedule is for Americans and English souls who think a crisp k at the start makes them sound well spoken

Correct. And the sort of people who say 'Can I get' when they want to order something. No, no you can't, you tell me what you want, I'll 'get' it for you. Either watched too much 90210 or once went to Florida for a week.

 

[spongy]

How many other words beginning sch do you pronounce as 'sh' instead of 'sk'?

If words beginning with sc are supposed to sound as sk, why are scissors not pronounced skissors?

 

[Coalburner]

Words beginning sch have Germanic roots and are pronounced sh in that language, while sc has French roots and is pronounce ss in that language

 

[Sid in the Sharknado]

Words beginning sch have Germanic roots and are pronounced sh in that language, while sc has French roots and is pronounce ss in that language

Interesting, but apparently untrue in the case of schedule: "From Old French cedule (whence French cédule), from Late Latin schedula (“papyrus strip”), diminutive of Latin scheda, from Ancient Greek σχέδη (skhédē, “papyrus leaf”)."

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/schedule

 

[monty uk]

Scheduler?

More seriously, there are some like schnapps, schmuck, schmooze, but off the top of my head the only one I can think of that doesn't have another consonant immediately after the h is schadenfreude.

When I say off the top of my head, I just typed "words beginning with sch" into Google

I suspect, ultimately, that it doesn't really matter.

And that, from somebody in Scheffield. Or is it Skeffield? But that, ultimately, doesn't matter either.

 

[Sid in the Sharknado]

And that, from somebody in Scheffield. Or is it Skeffield? But that, ultimately, doesn't matter either.

Tha not wrong there.

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

Same as “route” can be pronounced either Root (Brit) or Rowt (US)

 

[drew]

Same as “route” can be pronounced either Root (Brit) or Rowt (US)

To be honest, I think that's just a bastardisation by the yanks of our language. I don't know and have never heard anyone in this country pronounce it as rowt.

A bit like de po rather than dep o.

 

[drew]

If words beginning with sc are supposed to sound as sk, why are scissors not pronounced skissors?

There's no 'h' in scissors, that's why!

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

How many other words beginning sch do you pronounce as 'sh' instead of 'sk'?

Schweppes?
Schmooze?
Grant Schapps?

I say Schedule

 

[JC Footy Genius]

Words beginning sch have Germanic roots and are pronounced sh in that language, while sc has French roots and is pronounce ss in that language

Its clearly time to take back control of OUR language then and stick with itinerary ...

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[Swansman]

As with everything there is two ways of doing it: the American or the good.

 

[GT49er]

Just been listening to Andrew Straus on five live talking and he repeatedly said schedule as Skedule, which made me realise I say schedule as in shedule.

Which is right, or does it depend what context you are saying it?

It depends if you're American or English (or Andrew Strauss apparantly).

 

[banjo]

Who gives a ****.

 

[Klaas]

I had always been told that “sh” was British English, and “sk” was American.

Same, although I have always been a SK myself.

 

[sully]

It’s weird that I learnt about pronunciation at school, and that’s the only word I can think of where the English version of a Germanic word pronounces the sch incorrectly!

Schedule is always sh if you’re English, though (or should be). I’ve recently managed to stop my wife using skedule in return for me pronouncing the middle of assume correctly and not putting a sh sound in it!

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

This, the other one is American.

Same goes for secretary - the English (i.e. correct) way of pronouncing this word is to shorten the end so that it sounds like "seck-ret-tree". The long drawn out way is the shit American way.

Secker Terry

The Americans have shortened pronunciation of some words though: aluminum; realty (which, seriously kids, means real estate). And instead of estate agents they have realtors. They should go directly to gaol and not collect £200 in my view.