Poll: Your Pronunciation of "Meme"?

[zehydra]

It's definitely pronounced "meem". It's an actual word, not just some internet lingo.

 

[C95J]

Meh-May

My way is the right way

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

Meme.

Meem

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Yeah I got a lot of those when I was 5. Sort of stuck with me, that and 'i before e except after c.'

EDIT: Also, on a related note, 'Trope' is preonounced 'tro-puh.' Not 'trop-ee'. I had a university level Creative Writing tutor pronounce it 'trop-ee' for nearly three weeks before I finally brought in both an English and a French dictionary to show him that it is not prnounced with a long e on the end. Just because it is French does not mean you have to try and say it 'Frenchly.' I suspect even the French pronounce it 'meem' because there are no accents in it.

 

[Last Valiance]

It's a french word and the french say "Meh-may". It's a bad habit of mine.

 

[Knusper]

'mehm' as if the first e has a hat on it. Don't ask me why I say it, it just sounds right.

 

[rokkolpo]

People call it me-me...

WHAT?!

 

[C95J]

Meme = meem. Example in this video at 3:21.

Spoiler: It's a video!

oh well, I'll still keep pronouncing it my way because it sound better

 

[crystalsnow]

Uh, it's "meem". It isn't supposed to be pronounced any other way, it may just sound different from people with various accents.

 

[Denizen]

I previously pronounced it as "may-may/meh-meh" but now trying to adjust to "meem"

 

[teebeeohh]

meem

 

[EatPieYes]

I used to say "meh-meh". But nowadays I say "meem" because it's what's correct. Ain't that a story to tell the grandchildren?

 

[DYin01]

Before I knew how to pronounce it correctly, the word 'meme' was always a blank in my head. I googled it and found that it was pronounced ''meem''.

Sometimes, it would happen that I just had to use the word in conversation. If that happened, I blurted out every possible option in rapid succession. Has anyone else ever done this?

 

[Numachuka]

It's pronounced meem. End of.

 

[Valkyrie101]

I've always pronounced it mehm, not sure why.

Because that's the correct French pronunciation, maybe. Well, if it had an accent.

But in French it's a different word, "Même", meaning "Same" like in the phrase "C'est la même chose/It's the same thing" or "Even" like in the phrase "Même si.../Even if...".

Even then, I would never pronounce the english word "meme" any other way than "meem".

I can see a link, between meme and same. They're probably unrelated though.

 

[SonicKoala]

If I ever heard someone pronounce it "may-may", I would feel obligated to slap them in the face. It's "Meem", as in cream/dream/team/seem, etc...

 

[newfoundsky]

Mee-meh. Said fast its almost "meem" sooo

 

[Lucifron]

Meme is a word coined by Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene, and he created it because he needed a cultural analogy for genes. I used to pronounce it meh-meh, but then I read up on the word´s roots.

 

[Dan E]

I say it like me me.

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

Since it was originally coined by Richard Dawkins as a relation to "gene" (to do with memory rather than genetics), the pronunciation is "meem", which is how I've always said it anyway.