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Is it EE-ther or EYE-ther where you live? (lemmy.world)
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[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Never heard of anyone say the second.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

I've definitely said both as a speaker of General American. Gershwin even has it in a song lyric written in the 1930s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_Call_the_Whole_Thing_Off#Full_list_of_differences