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So, I have been attending many networking events and information sessions and have noticed that many of the more established speakers, such as steve black, pronounce the word "finance" in a weird way.

Is the correct way to say it "Fy Nance" (as in a similar pronunciation to fire)

or

"Fi Nane" (as in fist)

Just curious because I tend to pronounce it the first way while many executives say it the latter.

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I think it depends on how you've been brought up. I've heard a lot of people here in the U.K. say 'Fi-nance'. The former seems to be more of an American pronunciation.

 

Say it however you want to say it. The English language will never have a strong letter:phoneme correlation because it underwent a major vowel shift after its writing was codified, with no subsequent reverse engineering to the spelling system.

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