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In Primary school we are taught about time zones and we learn that the centre line for division between West and East is the Greenwich Mean Time or GMT. However you hear people pronounce Greenwich as Green Which or Witch but this is WRONG! It ought to be pronounced as GREN itch.

To be fair I only learnt of this recently and wanted to share with my fellow mispronouncers.

Moderators: Richiez, olawalebabs, Fynestboi pls front-page for wider dissemination.

Please, if you are coming on here to correct people, then get your facts right.

It’s pronounced GREN Itch and not Green ITCH. The emphasis is also on the first syllable GREN.

English language students don mount, na English science language I sabi

LordReed:
In Primary school we are taught about time zones and we learn that the centre line for division between West and East is the Greenwich Mean Time or GMT. However you hear people pronounce Greenwich as Green Which or Witch but this is WRONG! It ought to be pronounced as Green ITCH.

To be fair I only learnt of this recently and wanted to share with my fellow mispronouncers.mispronounced.

Moderators: Richiez, olawalebabs, Fynestboi pls front-page for wider dissemination.

This info fit give corn for breakfast no?!

Even if it's pronounced and GreenWizard, how does that concern us.

Whatever i decide to call it is the real pronunciation.

Tats:
Please, if you are coming on here to correct people, then get your facts right.

It’s pronounced GREN Itch and not Green ITCH. The emphasis is also on the first syllable GREN.

Thank you. Corrected it.

LordReed:
Thank you. Corrected it.

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Even though I have long known of this, I am partial to leaving people to freely pronounce as they see fit especially where the spelling lends itself to the pronunciation they choose and in light of the fact that English is a foreign language to most people in this part of the world.

No Frenchman for example goes about telling an Englishman that the correct pronunciation for Paris is Pari. This little example goes to show that language is dynamic and malleable and people are in fact entitled to mold it to suit themselves - and this is why we have many distinctions between written and spoken British English and American English. The Americans spoke and wrote it as they felt comfortable and it became standard, accepted and right for them.

Left to me, I would change the spelling of something like "Elephant" to "Elifant" for example, and remove letters which are silent in the pronunciation of certain words such as the "p" in psychology and the "b" in debt.

LordReed:
Thank you. Corrected it.

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Kukutente23 - observe and learn - grace, and simplicity.
From someone ten times the man you are.

Moveittothem:
Even if it's pronounced and GreenWizard, how does that concern us.

Whatever i decide to call it is the real pronunciation.

Anyone who watches soccer already knows. Many of us haven’t been to European places or have friends with their names, however we can pronounce things of the origin because commentators learn and repeat them occasionally.

Let me teach you one which surprised me: Rugeley.

LordReed:
In Primary school we are taught about time zones and we learn that the centre line for division between West and East is the Greenwich Mean Time or GMT. However you hear people pronounce Greenwich as Green Which or Witch but this is WRONG! It ought to be pronounced as GREN itch.

To be fair I only learnt of this recently and wanted to share with my fellow mispronouncers.

LordReed:
Thank you. Corrected it.

You’re a decent person.

kpankpangolo:
Anyone who watches soccer already knows. Many of us haven’t been to European places or have friends with their names, however we can pronounce things of the origin because commentators learn and repeat them occasionally.

Let me teach you one which surprised me: Rugeley.

How is it pronounced?

DeepSight:
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Even though I have long known of this, I am partial to leaving people to freely pronounce as they see fit especially where the spelling lends itself to the pronunciation they choose and in light of the fact that English is a foreign language to most people in this part of the world.

No Frenchman for example goes about telling an Englishman that the correct pronunciation for Paris is Pari. This little example goes to show that language is dynamic and malleable and people are in fact entitled to mold it to suit themselves - and this is why we have many distinctions between written and spoken British English and American English. The Americans spoke and wrote it as they felt comfortable and it became standard, accepted and right for them.

Left to me, I would change the spelling of something like "Elephant" to "Elifant" for example, and remove letters which are silent in the pronunciation of certain words such as the "p" in psychology and the "b" in debt.

Yeah English is a bàstèrd child so it would actually make sense to simplify it and make the rules much less cumbersome.

Tats:
You’re a decent person.

Thanks.

DeepSight:
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3 - observe and learn - grace, and simplicity.
From someone ten times the man you are.

You're here pontificating on grace and simplicity but your comment below on this very thread is nothing short of notice me and oversabi. I knew it but I didn't say it. Who asked you? Itibolibo

I wonder how Toyin Abrahams missed you for her latest movie. You'll fit the bill for the uncle effortlessly. It's second nature

DeepSight:
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Even though I have long known of this, I am partial to leaving people to freely pronounce as they see fit especially where the spelling lends itself to the pronunciation they choose and in light of the fact that English is a foreign language to most people in this part of the world.

No Frenchman for example goes about telling an Englishman that the correct pronunciation for Paris is Pari. This little example goes to show that language is dynamic and malleable and people are in fact entitled to mold it to suit themselves - and this is why we have many distinctions between written and spoken British English and American English. The Americans spoke and wrote it as they felt comfortable and it became standard, accepted and right for them.

Left to me, I would change the spelling of something like "Elephant" to "Elifant" for example, and remove letters which are silent in the pronunciation of certain words such as the "p" in psychology and the "b" in debt.

Kukutente23:
You're here pontificating on grace and simplicity but your comment below on this very thread is nothing short of notice me and oversabi. I knew it but I didn't say it. Who asked you? Itibolibo

I wonder how Toyin Abrahams missed you for her latest movie. You'll fit the bill for the uncle effortlessly. It's second nature

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Aburo.

Relax. Take a chill pill.

LordReed:
How is it pronounced?

Rouge-lee.

English teacher don jam another English professor today.. let's see who wins

When I taught Geography briefly, I remember my SS1 students laughing when I pronounced it GRENITCH MEANTIME.
They said I was wrong that it's GREEN WHICH! I smiled and asked them to bring out their dictionaries ready to spank them for doubting my 'authority'. 🤣

Did I eventually flog them? I'll leave that to your guess😊

Those 'naughty' boys have become big men now. One is a pilot now with a popular Airline in Nigeria. They are in constant touch with me.

Indeed, children grow too fast.

LordReed:
In Primary school we are taught about time zones and we learn that the centre line for division between West and East is the Greenwich Mean Time or GMT. However you hear people pronounce Greenwich as Green Which or Witch but this is WRONG! It ought to be pronounced as GREN itch.

To be fair I only learnt of this recently and wanted to share with my fellow mispronouncers.

Moderators: Richiez, olawalebabs, Fynestboi pls front-page for wider dissemination.

I've always known it though. I do hear it a lot in movies back then.

LordReed:
In Primary school we are taught about time zones and we learn that the centre line for division between West and East is the Greenwich Mean Time or GMT. However you hear people pronounce Greenwich as Green Which or Witch but this is WRONG! It ought to be pronounced as GREN itch.

To be fair I only learnt of this recently and wanted to share with my fellow mispronouncers.

Moderators: Richiez, olawalebabs, Fynestboi pls front-page for wider dissemination.

We know that. This is 2025 Oga.

Tats:
Please, if you are coming on here to correct people, then get your facts right.

It’s pronounced GREN Itch and not Green ITCH. The emphasis is also on the first syllable GREN.

Now, this is new knowledge. Thank you for this one.

I have always pronounced it well since I was a kid

My partner was call centreing at home last week, and a certain Lord Hamilton called. He complained he does not want to talk to an African but to a person who spoke Queen's English. The racïst git had called 4 times already saying he couldn't understand the foreigners who answered his call.

The company partner works for seems to hire foreigners because natives like me would have very rudely told him to go do one and we'd have been sacked.

Turned out he owes £6000 and doesn't want to pay.