Sive or Seeve?


I was just watching a YouTube video (on how to make the perfect poached egg) and the narrator pronounced sieve as seeve. I've never heard anyone pronounce the word that way before. I've always said sive. (I know, stupid English and its weird spellings and eccentricities.)

How do you pronounce it?

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I pronounce it coddled. Many restaurants refuse to make a poached egg. It’s too hard to do.

But I love ‘em.

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I pronounce it like "siv".

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Yes, Siv. I thought that was the common way, everywhere.

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I say 'siv'

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i was called a 'siv' a bunch of times when i played goalie in floor hockey, so that's what i'm going with.

this reminds me of something i once heard: never make fun of anyone for mispronouncing a word, because that probably means they read it in book.

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i was called a 'siv' a bunch of times when i played goalie in floor hockey, so that's what i'm going with.


Man, that's brutal. Normally people would just be called Swiss cheese.

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either one works.

it wouldn't have stung so much if it wasn't true!

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Siv.

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I’ve always pronounced it “seeve”.🤷🏼‍♀️

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It's something kitchen related, so I'll have to ask the missus.

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Appalachians are unanimous - it's pronounced "sive".

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