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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Linguistics Studies

Pronunciation "primer".

When referring to a child's introductory textbook, how would you pronounce "primer"?

PRIH-mer
PRIME-er
  

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23 Answers
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To rhyme with "dimmer".
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enoonTo rhyme with "dimmer".
Fascinating!
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Mister Micawber['prai m?]
Puzzling.
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enoonPuzzling.
Prime numbers, primary objectives, etc.

\'pri-m?r, chiefly British 'pri-m?r\
[prim-er or, esp. British, prahy-mer]
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enoonTo rhyme with "dimmer".
'Primmer' rhymes with 'dimmer'. 'Primer' rhymes with 'climber'.
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Primer has two meanings, and two pronunciations.

Short i sound: a children's text.
Long i sound: a small explosive (or amount of water) to set off a larger explosive (or water flow.)
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/primer
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For a text, I say it to rhyme with timer. Emotion: time
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I found the long i puzzling because I have always thought that it was a shibboleth of semi-literacy in American English when used of the little book. It's as though they'd never heard the word and took a stab at the pronunciation based on spelling. Apparently, the long i is a regional variant or a garden-variety variant (or the short i is, although A-Stars is a Southern gal, I believe, and I'm a Y
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enoonLet's do "forte" next.
Oh, goodie! ['f??rtei]...which just goes to show how unreliable the AmE/BrE difference is.
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