How to pronounce schedule

How to pronounce schedule

Clearly you are American (please note the correct capitalisation)!
«British» English is an American term and therefore is not a word. If you are interested, English is the language spoken in England. In Britain (properly referred to as «The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland») we have several languages including English, Welsh, Gaelic (Irish & Scottish) and numerous dialects which our American cousins often confuse as accents. Please therefore note that the next time you notice someone is English ‘by their accent’, it is you and not they who have one! (I assume you can understand my dialect).

Thank you for your comment. Allow me to correct you on almost everything:

1) I am British, not American. See my «About» section.

2) «British English» is not an exclusively American term. It is a term widely agreed upon by noted linguists either side of the Atlantic. It is used in academic circles to differentiate between aspects of English used in Britain and those used in, say, the U.S., Canada, New Zealand, or Australia. I somehow imagine that if linguists made this distinction by referring to American English as «American,» you’d be a little nonplussed.

3) The proper term for Britain is not «The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland». This name was retired in the 1920s, following the partition of Ireland. You might be getting confused with «The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.»

4) Depending on the context, an English person can be just as beholden to an accent as his or her American counterpart.

Finally, please clarify your first sentence; I’m not sure where I am supposed to have used incorrect capitalisation (please note the «s»).

Thank you,
Laurence Brown

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Laurence is a British expat living in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is a contributor for BBC America and has written for Anglotopia and Smitten by Britain. Having graduated from Lancaster University with a degree in English Language and Creative Writing, Laurence runs this blog, Lost In The Pond, charting the endless cultural and linguistic differences between Britain and The United States.—————————————

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Please note a most basic error at the head of this the site.

Actually, the American pronunciation of schedule pre-dates the (modern) British pronunciation. As «schedule» is not a word of Germanic origin, the «sk» sound is correct and was the only pronunciation until the 19th century, when «received English» took on an affectation and switched the «sk» to an «sh» sound. Funnily, scholars today believe that the closest English to «the Bard’s English» heard today is an American accent from the South—and any American accent is closer to how Shakespeare would have pronounced his words than any British accent.

All, given that I think we all know what is meant by the word schedule, however it is pronounced, could we not just accept that all language evolves and that we should embrace those changes to allow ourselves to evolve with it, afterall this is what we profess to be good at!
also this is my view and not a reason to comment on my own use of language in written form.

«DIFFERENT TO» is an accepted and understood construction that has been around for centuries and used by respected authors through time. It is not a basic error.

That’s what I tell people about «DIFFERENT THAN» and «WOULD OF» but they don’t seem to listen.

Then how do you pronounce school. shool?

I’m British and in my part of the country, (the North East of England) ‘skedule’ is the normal pronunciation. ‘Shedule’ is the pronunciation used by the metropolitan establishment. Like so many other things, those people claim their own pronunciation as the standard British pronunciation. It isn’t. It’s just one variant of the two which are used in the UK.

Why «sedule» for schedule, but not «schull» for school? Rampant inconsistency!

Shame on them for pronouncing it correctly? LOL. Did you read through the comments?

If you want rampant inconsistency, why do Americans say ‘Eye-raq’ and ‘Eye-ran’ but not ‘Eye-srael’, ‘Eye-ndia’ or ‘Eye-taly’?

Rampant inconsistency is common here in Britain as demonstrated by the very talented British actor, Sean Bean.

of all the Comments the most entertaining was the one with Eye-an.

also I pronounce schedule = Iska- Dool. and no one ever corrected me.

Plus people must learn to accept the limitation of Brain power of humans over making type of sounds, for example I cannot make all the sounds of the german language.

Not all Americans pronounce Iraq as «eye-rak» or Iran as «eye-ran». Some of us use a short I vowel. Just like those in the UK, we have a wide variety of accents.

Minor comment (nitpick but I’ll stand on my soapbox for a moment): The idea that «British English» predates «American English» is at best misleading. It is like saying my in-laws’ daughter predates my wife. Although in a certain sense there is some truth to it, for the most part it is a silly argument. What we today call «British» and «American» English BOTH originated from the same language. Arguing that one is a more proper descendant than the other is non-sense. For example, English was originally a strictly rhotic language. The London variety became non-rhotic during the 19th century (as did some of the American varieties) but the dominant American varieties remained rhotic like the original language.

The OED has «skedule» as the preferred pronunciation but both are correct. I suspect that Laurence has the etymology pinpointed above. Note that «ize» is not an Americanism, it is the original and preferred form in British English; both are correct («ise» is a recent French influence).

Canadian here. Miss Noble, my high school German teacher was of United Empire Loyalist stock. She told us the correct Canadian pronunciation was «skedule». She said «shedule» was an affectation. It is still often used by some TV and radio announcers.

Why do North Americans say «erb» instead of «herb»? I heard some TV cook had a bad cold and said «erb» and the rest of mid-morning TV watchers followed it up. Now it is commonly used. What a travesty and ignorance. Do you say «ungry» or hungry? «Appy» or «happy»? To me it’s Aluminium, Magnesium, Helium, Magnesium» and all the «iums». Only aluminum seems to be different. Why? In Britain we walk on the pavement. In America it’s sidewalk. To Americans pavement is the road surface. Correct me if I’m wrong. I can’t remember if we commonly used «it’s, I’m» and such shortened words. Also too much familiarity when Americans write to you. They commonly use «Dear first name» instead «Dear Mr.Last name» Comments on my moans please.

The people who live in England established (with the help of many invading European forces!) English. It is the English language spoken by English people living in England.
Or is that a difficult / unbelievable concept?

Yes most people in Scotland and Wales also speak English (because our ancestors had a thing for invading places). Collectively England, Scotland and Wales are Britain, this is true.
The fact that a collection of people have labelled it «British» English for convenience, does not stop English being English.

«British English» and «American English» are just two convenient labels used to differentiate the differences America has made to English, English.

«French, French» v’s «Canadian French».
If only there were some sort of coalition between France, Belgium and Switzerland (as they all speak French). Then we could stop calling it «French, French». A convenient label could be «Middle European French»!
Which would be technically correct, but wouldn’t stop «French being French!»

This one’s easy.
If you break these names into syllables, «I•raq» and «I•ran» would have long i’s if we follow basic English Orthography. «Is•rael» and «In•di•a» have «is» and «in», which are closed syllables. Hence, if basic phonetic rules of English are used, the i’s would be short.
Many Americans pronounce «Iraq» and «Iran» with a long I, because they are trying to read the word the way it was written, but do not actually know how to pronounce the word correctly.
The same goes for the Brits:
Why do they pronounce the Putin’s name as «PYOO-tin» when it is actually «POO-teen»?

A good friend of mine was in Jamaica on his honey moon and seated at a table with a loud American couple. The American chap turned to my friend and said,
«That’s a cute accent you have there.»
My friend’s reply was,
«Sir, I have a language, you have an accent.»

As an American I always snicker a little about how non-Americans claim our pronunciation of words is wrong. My understanding of history says that in many cases, our pronunciation is closer to the original English pronunciation that the current British pronunciation. Specifically, I’m referring to dropping of and adding of the R sound from words. Pronouncing «shark» like «shock», for example. Or «Barbara» like «Barbarar». That didn’t start happening until the mid-1700’s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English), after the American «dialect» had already been established (borrowing heavily form the British dialects as well as a melting pot of accents from several English speaking and non-English speaking countries).

Yes, we do like to simplify words. We drop unnecessary letters all over the place. Colour becomes color. Labour becomes labor, etc. But that’s nothing new. The British did the same with much from Olde English, right? That’s one of the beautiful things about OUR language. It evolves as we evolve. This isn’t something Americans did, words have been evolving as long as English has been spoken.

But if the British truly want to take ownership of the language, you can explain to those trying to learn English as a 2nd language why we have so many words that are spelled differently, mean something different, but are pronounced the same. Or why there are so many words that are not pronounced like they are spelled. Or why our grammar rules are largely guidelines that once you’ve mastered you’ll have to learn the many many exceptions to.

English is a funky, cranky, nasty, bitch of a language. Let’s just admit that, embrace it, be amused by the differences in our pronunciation and amazed that we can understand each other anyway.

So. With regard to the whole «colour» vs «color» thing.

The original spelling of the word was «color.» At some point, some chick named Vicky, who called herself a Queen, decided that an extra letter was necessary. So «color» became «colour,» «honor» became «honour,» and so forth. Simply because she felt the need to over-complicate things.

Bloody self-entitled of her, if you ask me.

Oh. And Aluminum vs Aluminium. Humphrey Davy, the *Brit* who named the element, originally wanted to call it Alumium, but eventually decided on Aluminum because he felt it sounded better. Note the similarity to Platinum. Huzzah!

The stuck up prats at the Royal Society would have none of it, however, and totally disrespected his right to name the element whatever the frack he wanted. Thus, the abomination «Aluminium» was born.

Davy spent some time in the United States at some point, and the scientific community over there respected his desire to name the element as he wished.

The British pronunciation of the word «schedule»

Is pronouncing the word «schedule» as «shed-ule» only an upper class thing in the UK? Which pronunciation, «sked-ule» «or «shed-ule» is more faithful to the original etymology of the word, i.e. which came first?

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[. ] the modern British pronunciation («shed-yul») is from French influence, while the U.S. pronunciation («sked-yul») is from the practice of Webster, and is based on the Greek original.

To answer your question directly, the modern spelling appeared in 15c as a throwback to the Latin schedula. Google’s pronunciation of Latin schedula sounds like skeh-doo-la to me. This is closer to the typical US pronunciation.

The pronunciation guides I checked list the UK pronunciation as simply «UK». Whether it has a class distinction isn’t something I can answer.

I’ve never been aware of a class distinction aspect of shed-yul vs. sked-yul.

I will note that the American pronunciation has made its way back over the pond to some extent. If that is due to the influence of film and TV (which I imagine it is) then it could well vary over different demographics.

The earliest English pronunciation of schedule is no longer used, as far as I know: it was something like /ˈsɛdjul/ (compare schism, which some still pronounce as “sizm”).

In the 16th cent., both in French and English, the spellings scedule and schedule, imitating the contemporary forms of the Latin word, were used by a few writers. In French this fashion was transient, but in English schedule has been the regular spelling from the middle of the 17th cent. The original pronunciation /ˈsɛdjuːl/ continued in use long after the change in spelling; it is given in 1791 by Walker without alternative; in his second ed. (1797) he says that it is ‘too firmly fixed by custom to be altered’, though on theoretical grounds he would prefer either /ˈskɛdjuːl/, favoured by Kenrick, Perry, and Buchanan, or—‘if we follow the French’— /ˈʃɛdjuːl/. The latter he does not seem to have known either in actual use or as recommended by any orthoepist. Smart, however, in 1836 gives /ˈʃɛdjuːl/ in the body of his Dictionary without alternative, although in his introduction he says that as the word is of Greek origin the normal pronunciation would be with /sk/. Several later Dicts. recognize /ˈsɛdjuːl/ as permissible, but it is doubtful whether this was really justified by usage. In England the universal pronunciation at present seems to be with /ʃ/; in the U.S., the authority of Webster has secured general currency for /sk/.

It seems from this that /sk/ may be slightly earlier than /ʃ/, at least as a theoretical pronunciation for use in English, since Walker 1797 references earlier mentions of /sk/ by Kenrick, Perry, and Buchanan, while it was possibly his own idea to look at French (pronunciation rules?) for /ʃ/. (It’s true that modern words in French spelled with sch- are pronounced /ʃ/, such as schéma, and as the OED mentions there are examples of «sch» being used in an obsolete spelling variant of this word in French—I found an example here from the early 1700s—but it’s not clear to me that Walker had any actual contact with a French speaker who used /ʃ/, or the «sch» spelling, in his time). Overall, it doesn’t seem entirely clear to me which pronounciation, /sk/ or /ʃ/, can be considered to have become established earlier than the other.

The Latin source word seems to have a somewhat obscure etymology; however, I thought a brief discussion of it might provide some useful context for the various pronunciations.

Etymology

It seems solidly established that the word comes from medieval Latin schedula/scedula, a diminutive form of a word scheda/scida meaning “a strip of papyrus”. This was apparently related in some fashion to a Greek word σχέδη/σχίδη, although the direction of transfer isn’t entirely clear:

– An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat, 1882. (I know this is an old source, but it’s the most complete description of the etymology that I could find out of the sources available to me.) If this etymology is correct, it would in fact mean that the the word is related to the English verb shed (as Henry said in a comment) but extremely distantly, so this wouldn’t be expected to be relevant to the present-day English pronunciation.

In Greek, there is a difference between the pronunciation of κ (“c/k”) and χ (“ch”). The first corresponds to the voiceless velar plosive /k/; the second corresponded in early stages of Greek to an aspirated velar plosive /kʰ/, and in later and modern Greek corresponds to a voiceless velar fricative /x/.

In Latin, the digraph “ch” was originally used to represent χ in loans from Greek, and educated speakers likely pronounced it as /kʰ/, distinct from “c”. Later on, “ch” came to be used as an alternative to “c” in some native Latin words, such as “pulcher”; it is hypothesized that this might have been related to some phonetic development in these words. In even later Latin writing (e.g. in the medieval times), we see even more variation between “c” and “ch” (or “t” and “th”), which suggests that at some point, either one could be used to represent the same consonant /k/. Sometimes false etymologies from Greek also contributed to the use of “h” digraphs in the spelling of Latin words: the word “amarantus” came to be spelled “amaranthus” by association with the Greek word ἄνθος (anthus) “flower”.

So, regardless of the word’s origin, it seems likely that /sk/ was used in its Latin pronunciation at some point. Scholars have been aware of this for a while, and this is the basis for the /sk/ pronunciation in English.

The sound /k/ ended up being fronted before front vowels in the development from Latin to Romance languages. In French, the final outcome of this was /s/, and this pronunciation of the letter «c» was used even in learned words, which is why «cédule» was pronounced /sedyl/. This is the origin of the original pronunciation used in English with /s/ and no /k/.

In French, the digraph «ch» came to be used to represent the /ʃ/ sound resulting from another palatalization of /k/, and this caused many learned borrowings from Latin and Greek that were spelled with «ch», such as the word schéma that I mentioned earlier, to have pronunciations with /ʃ/ based on the spelling. (Since /*sʃ/ is not a possible word-initial consonant cluster in French, it’s natural for sch- to be interpreted as /ʃ/). This seems to be what Walker (1797) viewed as the basis for a possible pronunciation with /ʃ/.

In addition to this, I have a suspicion that the graphical similarity of «sh» and «sch», and the use of «sch» for /ʃ/ in German, may have also reinforced the /ʃ/ pronunciation of this word in English.

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Thanks, Emma. Now, my pronunciation is getting on “schedule” 🙂

great! thanks Emma I liked this lesson!
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American English? Most of English speakers are not “native” (“INDIAN”) speakers. So Canada is a colony of USA. Congratulations on your happy slavery. Specially for Canadian (?) people. (Sorry, stupid people.)

Technically, Canada was formed out of British and French colonies and we’re still part of the Commonwealth, so if we’re a colony of anything (we’re not) it would be the UK.

And yes, I know “native speaker” sounds odd, but that’s the term most people understand.

Thanks Emma, 9/10

Thanks Emma. I’ve got 100.

Today’s lesson was very fun. But I can not pronounce these Tongue Twisters at all. My tongue went up and down in my mouth. (^_^)
How many times should I practice? Mmm ・・・
Emma! Thank you so much for your great lesson.

Another good lesson,thank you Emma.

Thank you Emma. Good Lesson

Great! My pronunciation was changed after your lesson) thank you!

thank you, Emma.tongue twisters are very hard for me

Great. 100%. Thanks Emma

This lesson really help me a lot. Many thanks to you, Emma

I adore this website and adore me Emma… but I need to speak fluently 🙁

Thank you Emma, I got 4 score 😀 It’s so impressing hahaha I hope this quiz can be a lesson for the future

perfect score…thanks Emma for that

Thanks, your lessons are great!

Thanks, Emma. Good lesson. I got 100

I´m very happy learning pronunciation lessons. Thanks.

How to Pronounce Schedule

In this lesson, I will teach you how to pronounce schedule. We will also practise saying ‘schedule’ in repeat-after-me phrases. Learn how to pronounce this difficult but commonly used business English word.

British Verses American Pronunciation of ‘Schedule’

Students are often confused about the correct way to pronounce ‘schedule’ because the British and American pronunciations of the word sound very different. The British English pronunciation contains a ‘sh’ sound, whereas the American pronunciation contains a /sk/ consonant blend.

How to Pronounce Schedule in British English

In British English, the spelling in ‘schedule’ is pronounced with a ‘sh’ /ʃ/ sound.

British English → schedule (n) /ˈʃed.juːl/

Thinking of the word ‘shed’ helps us to remember the correct pronunciation of ‘schedule’ in British English.

Here’s a mnemonic to help you remember how to pronounce ‘schedule’ in British English:

You should pronounce the ‘sh’ in ‘schedule’

I teach you how to pronounce schedule in the video below. Watch the entire lesson to learn the American pronunciation also.

How to Pronounce Schedule: Example Phrases

Now practise how to pronounce ‘schedule’ by reading aloud the example phrases. Pay close attention to your articulation and repeat-after-me as clearly as possible.

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How to pronounce schedule

Ske- jul

Символ показывает уровень знания интересующего вас языка и вашу подготовку. Выбирая ваш уровень знания языка, вы говорите пользователям как им нужно писать, чтобы вы могли их понять.

Мне трудно понимать даже короткие ответы на данном языке.

Могу задавать простые вопросы и понимаю простые ответы.

Могу формулировать все виды общих вопросов. Понимаю ответы средней длины и сложности.

Понимаю ответы любой длины и сложности.

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