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Either works, really.
Neither
Best answer to the question here. Neither either of either is right (or wrong).
Neither. I say either.
Ironically, either of them depending on the situation. Sometimes I even express the concept that I am indifferent to the choice between two things or happy with both of them by saying “ee-ther, eye-ther”
I definitely use them both together more often than just one. Like you, to express indifference to a choice.
I don’t tend to do that with neither though 🤔 and now I’m thinking too hard, I don’t know which I tend to go with.
Both. Context-dependant.
either
Eye-ther mostly, but like with many words I’ll alternate between pronunciations! (You still won’t catch me pronouncing “decals” like dee-cals though!)
I can’t tell if maybe you’re joking, but is there another way to pronounce decal? I could in theory imagine someone saying it like “dick-al” but that seems unlikely.
“Deckles”, rhyming with “speckles”.
Weird, I didn’t know people pronounced it dye-cals /s
if you don’t mind me asking, what country are you from? I’ve heard people from the us say ee-ther and dee-cals
In my head I pronounce it as “either”, but out loud I pronounce it like “either”
Tomato tomato.
I say this in real life, but when I say it I pronounce it the same both times.
Same
I don’t say either.
I don’t. I say either.
yes
Yanny
So you say both then?
Either either or either, depending on maybe the context or the phonetics of words used. Kinda like how you say the or the depending on if the next word starts with a vowel or not.
Either Either or eIther