anise

[Lynne Murphy]

She's using the standard British pronunciation, but 'aniseed' is pronounced
the same as in AmE.

Similarly the Frenchified pronunciation of 'endive' is the usual BrE
pronunciation (when they're not calling it 'chicory').

Lynne

--On Sunday, August 17, 2008 10:06 am -0400 Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU>
wrote:

> A couple of days ago on the Food Network, Rachael Ray, more than once,
> pronounced "anise" as [@ 'nis], a pronunciation registered in none of the
> several English dictionaries at hand.
>
> At first I supposed it was just a pretentious faux-French affection, as I
> used to assume "endive" as ['an div] is--though that one is in the
> dictionaries, and it does mimic the actual French pronunciation.  But
> maybe [@ 'nis] exemplifies the "Uranus" ['jUr @ n at s] syndrome--an attempt
> to keep low-minded liteners from thinking about anuses?
>
> --Charlie
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Arts B135
University of Sussex
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