Niches get species
this post was submitted on 24 Dec 2025
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Fun Fact, pictured above appears to be a goat on a mountain, which is NOT a Mountain Goat because Mountain Goats are not goats. Mountain Goats are Antellopes.
One of the most disappointing facts when learning English was how many different animals are just called goat or deer
The superior mountain goat that's actually a goat:
I got genuinely curious about this goat, so here's the name: Markhor
Friends call him Mark.
That's not a goat, that the GOAT.
That's cool and all, but I'm cheering for the mountain. Geology rocks!
Pfft next you’ll tell me water bears aren’t bears
That's right, they are water
"This is cheese sauce. Can you guess what it's made from?"
"Sauce?"
"That's right: Cheese."
sobbing
Thank you for memeing with the proper pronunciation of "niche".
I am confused, do you think niche rhymes with bitch?
Maybe it's partly regional, but growing up it was always "nitch". Like "Tom has really found his (nitch)." It only seems to have been making the transition to "neesh" in the last 10 years or so and it still sounds off to me.
It’s originally a French word so I would guess that nitch is likely the more recent mutation.
Yeah. "Nitch" didn't show up until 1917 and got added to the Webster dictionary in 1961.
It is commonly pronounced both ways in the US, imo both pronunciations are correct.
As an American if someone said "nitch" out loud I would secretly die inside and then do my best to remember this:
It would make me cringe asf but similarly I would remember policing how people use words to uphold some „purity“ of language is mostly BS and your time can be spent in much better ways.
policing how people use words to uphold some „purity“ of language
A lot of other languages besides english have institues dedicated to doing that exact thing. In spanish it's the Royal Spanish Academy (La Real Academia Española).
I’ve never heard anybody pronounce it that way, and since we regularly tell children to “sound it out” to spell things I am going to go ahead and say no to adding letters personally.
Female dogs are called beeshes?
What else do you call a female Bichon?
it's pronounced kneesh, but I'm willing to overlook it for the sake of a meme. You may ask, 'will you die on that hill?' and I'll reply "some will".
With a hard K?
A hard silent k.
This guy gets it
No species for us niches
So, this can't just be a Hellsing Ultimate Abridged reference, right? There's an underlying reference I'm just not aware of?