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Is this actually a dialect thing? I’m pretty sure I switch between them both with no real logic.
Same, but probably Eye-ther most commonly for me. From South east.
For some reason EE-ther puts me in mind of the west country
Either is fine here.
I see what you did there. Nice.
It’s either here.
I would use both ways depending on context, but ee-ther by default.
I’m in Swindon.
Never heard of anyone say the second.
I’ve definitely said both as a speaker of General American. Gershwin even has it in a song lyric written in the 1930s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let’s_Call_the_Whole_Thing_Off#Full_list_of_differences
EE-ther. Never heard anyone say the second
Either ee-ther or eye-ther.
It’s pronounced ether motorboats cloth and inhales deeply AWW YEEEEA!
