TEMPLATE: do you pronounce it "templayt" or "templit"?

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In America, it's "templit," people. TEMPLIT!

For years, artists of all walks of life and administrative assistants had happily used the template happily, both its function and pronunciation.

For some reason, after marketing people started using shitty software that had the template functions, all of a sudden every marketing jackass I run into loves to use the word TEMPLAYT.

GET YOUR FUCKING ASSES OVER TO DICTIONARY.COM AND OBSERVE THE PRONUNCIATION THEREOF, MOTHERFUCKERS!

ADDITIONALLY, NOT EVERYTHING IS A "TEMPLATE"! FOR INSTANCE, A PLAN OF ACTION IS NOT NECESSARILY A TEMPLATE!

SAYING "LET'S MAP OUT A TEMPLAYT" DOES NOT MAKE YOU SMART!

― AAAAAAAAHHHH!, Saturday, 10 September 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

I've never heard anyone say "tem-playt." How awful for you.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 10 September 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

Templayt is correct in the UK.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 10 September 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

Beg pardon. I don't get out much.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 10 September 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

I was referring to the idiotic Americans, though.

If I was in the UK, I'd say, "Hey, this is how we pronounce it here! No problem! Just like aloominium instead of aluminum!"

But, I'm talking about idiots in America.

Maybe it's a New York thing.

― AAAAAHHHHHHH!, Saturday, 10 September 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

nope, not a just a new york thing. with my old job, i got to where i thought maybe i was mispronouncing it sometimes, rather than the other way around.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Saturday, 10 September 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I find this a funny US/UK reversal -- usually it's the UK where the ends of things get clipped to shorter vowels! (Cf words ending in "ary," where we say "AIR-y" and you say "a-ree.") We Americans are supposed to love our As! We're supposed to say templAAAAYYYt and leave it to the British to use a clipped, elegant "templit!" But the world is all topsy-turvy on this one.

― nabiscothingy, Saturday, 10 September 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

I mean, what if there was a place called TEMPLATESHIRE?

― nabiscothingy, Saturday, 10 September 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, this really bugs me! It was always "templit" in the US until certain office denizens discovered the MS Word document template.

x-post good point Nabisco.

― quality does not equal quality (wetmink), Saturday, 10 September 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

Maybe we should start an email spam campaign. If every marketing executive in America got the email, maybe it would stop.

― aaaahhh., Saturday, 10 September 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

i say "templit." i wasn't aware of "templayt" becoming so rampant.

― CQD CQD SOS SOS CQD DE MGY MGY (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 10 September 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

never really thought about it, but i pronounce it "templayt" b/c that's always been the way that i've heard it pronounced.

this seems to be a really silly thing to get all worked up over, though.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 10 September 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

this seems to be a really silly thing to get all worked up over, though.

Not when you hear and use the word template several times a day. It gets to a point where you KNOW that everyone else is thinking during the meeting "haha, he means templayt! If he only knew how silly that accent of his sounds!"

― AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!, Saturday, 10 September 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

TEMPLATECESTER

― nabiscothingy, Saturday, 10 September 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

TEMPLITBURGH

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 10 September 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

Burghecestershire.

― AAAAAAAHHHHH!, Saturday, 10 September 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

Those don't work. :(

― nabiscothingy, Saturday, 10 September 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

What, and "TEMPLATEBURGH" does?
Blood is going to be running in the streets, I just know it. We all need to CALM DOWN.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 10 September 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

I don't think I've ever heard anyone say "templit".

― Sundar (sundar), Saturday, 10 September 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

That's because you're a communist.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 10 September 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

or a CANADIAN (same thing)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 10 September 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

My templits are throbbing

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 10 September 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

someone I work with says "tem PLAYT" which is subtly different but a thousand times worse

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 10 September 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

actually she says "temp PLAYTE"

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 10 September 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

I've never heard "templit" either.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Saturday, 10 September 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

Team plate (like the river in Argentina).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 10 September 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

ye olde templayte

― quality does not equal quality (wetmink), Saturday, 10 September 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

'templit' sounds exaggerated to my ears. The UK version might be something like TEM-PLAYT, equal syllables, where the American might be more like TEMP-lut/let/lit, where the second syllable is just about swallowed.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 10 September 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

It's not that bad. It's just a stress on the first syllable.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Saturday, 10 September 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

Question:
So the "templayt" rampage started due to MS Office? Why was that, if anyone knows? I mean, are most Americans so stupid that they saw it written down and went "oh, it's tem-PLATE" (and does that mean there was a rampant misspelling of "template" earlier...)?

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Sunday, 11 September 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

Have you seen Templateshire?

Yes, it's about 25 degrees in the shade.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Sunday, 11 September 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

Jessie the Monster, I would guess they never heard of the word before and maybe the first MS users were instructed by some dumb techie. I still remember the tech guy telling me to empty my "catch" in the internet browser.

― AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!, Sunday, 11 September 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

My boss calls that a "cayche". GRRRRR.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Sunday, 11 September 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

I don't see how it would be stupid to see this word written down and assume it was pronounced templayt.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Sunday, 11 September 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

Everyone I know says "templayte". And "cayche". Surely it isnt said "cash".

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 11 September 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

See, I've only ever heard "cash".

― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 11 September 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

(Probably because I haven't lived outside Canada very long.)

― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 11 September 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

Aussies flatten all their vowels. If you said "tehmplett" or "tehmplitt" here, people would snort at you for trying to sound like a yank =) I still feel weird saying "route" as "rowt" sometimes.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 11 September 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

it's definitely "cash", not "cayche".

― quality does not equal quality (wetmink), Sunday, 11 September 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)

Not in Aus it aint =)

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 12 September 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)

I say template.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 12 September 2005 00:35 (twenty years ago)

I've been saying template all my life. I don't recognize this as something new.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 12 September 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)

I'm guessing my first exposure to it would have been in the context of my mom's art supplies. (And I have to admit her pronunciation was pretty bad in general.)

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 12 September 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)

FWIW I dont see how MS office has anything to do with how it is said in the slightest.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 12 September 2005 01:28 (twenty years ago)

thirteen years pass...

I’ve need struggling with this word. Maybe b/c I’ve been using it more than before for a doc management system at work. Either way I say it feels wrong and weird.

― Je55e, Friday, 5 October 2018 23:08 (seven years ago)

Seems like most of my coworkers say “playt”

We’re all American, so I’m. It sure what happened to us.

― Je55e, Friday, 5 October 2018 23:09 (seven years ago)

In between.

― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Friday, 5 October 2018 23:22 (seven years ago)

o.p.s were totally reversed itt, americans say temm-plate

― j., Friday, 5 October 2018 23:32 (seven years ago)

TEM-plǝt

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 6 October 2018 00:00 (seven years ago)

templet

― El Tomboto, Saturday, 6 October 2018 00:03 (seven years ago)

Still weirded out anyone says "cash" for cache.

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 6 October 2018 02:02 (seven years ago)

what do you say???

― j., Saturday, 6 October 2018 02:05 (seven years ago)

Clear the cash

― calstars, Saturday, 6 October 2018 02:08 (seven years ago)

I think they say “caysh” as in “vacation”

― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Saturday, 6 October 2018 02:37 (seven years ago)

yep!

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 6 October 2018 04:01 (seven years ago)

TEMPLATE: do you pronounce it "templayt" or "templit"?

Yes. Alternately. Depending on the surrounding words.

― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 6 October 2018 04:05 (seven years ago)

Same.

Never heard anyone say "caysh"!

― change display name (Jordan), Saturday, 6 October 2018 04:33 (seven years ago)

xp whaaaaat that's bonkers

― j., Saturday, 6 October 2018 04:33 (seven years ago)

Never knew there were savages that said kaysh

― F# A# (∞), Saturday, 6 October 2018 04:41 (seven years ago)

Prime ilx right here

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 6 October 2018 05:10 (seven years ago)

oh i see we already talked about this 13 years ago

― j., Saturday, 6 October 2018 05:25 (seven years ago)

Prolly mentally blocked those fux0rs

― F# A# (∞), Saturday, 6 October 2018 05:28 (seven years ago)

cockfarmers

― j., Saturday, 6 October 2018 05:31 (seven years ago)

we didn't start calling them fux0rs until later

― j., Saturday, 6 October 2018 05:31 (seven years ago)

― j., Saturday, 6 October 2018 05:33 (seven years ago)

;_;

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 6 October 2018 06:31 (seven years ago)

lol caysh. As in “get off my caysh, jeeshush!”

Americans saying “nitch” will always be the funniest thing to me, partly but not primarily because I then imagine them ordering a burger on BRIYOTCH

― coetzee.cx (wins), Saturday, 6 October 2018 08:55 (seven years ago)

tem-playte

cache is pronounced cache

― Dmac TT (darraghmac), Saturday, 6 October 2018 09:11 (seven years ago)

Tem-playte, cash. And in case you were wondering, it's dah-tuh, not day-tuh.

'Nitch' instead of 'neesh' annoys the shit out of me, although nowhere near as much as calling the main course an 'entree'.

― pomenitul, Saturday, 6 October 2018 09:25 (seven years ago)

i pre-var-ic-ate on data which is unforgivable

― Dmac TT (darraghmac), Saturday, 6 October 2018 09:49 (seven years ago)

My former boss pronounces “cash” as “caysh” (same with other words like ash, lash, stash). It’s b/c of her southern Illinois accent.

― Je55e, Sunday, 7 October 2018 17:45 (seven years ago)

Yes. Alternately. Depending on the surrounding words.

OTM

― sarahell, Sunday, 7 October 2018 18:10 (seven years ago)

d a t u m s

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 15:30 (seven years ago)

did u c datums on dat 1

― Dmac TT (darraghmac), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 15:34 (seven years ago)

shdngfhdjfbfngbf

― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 15:48 (seven years ago)

Would’ve done a coffee spittake just now if I hadn’t swallowed a second earlier

― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 15:49 (seven years ago)

temp-lut

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 15:56 (seven years ago)

temp-lət

― Toss another shrimpl air on the bbqbbq (ledge), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 16:19 (seven years ago)

kashay on the templait

― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 16:20 (seven years ago)

why will no one itt say bulleit u cowards

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 20:12 (seven years ago)

Whats bulleit

― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 20:23 (seven years ago)

The London Underground announcer on the Northern Line pronounces Highgate as "Hi-git", which is unusual these days, I think. Makes her sound like John Betjeman.

― fetter, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 09:58 (seven years ago)

it’s pronounced la kwa

― ||||||||, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 10:18 (seven years ago)

does anyone pronounce plate 'plit'?

― ogmor, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 10:50 (seven years ago)

The same announcer reminds you that you can get out at London Bridge to visit London Bridge Pierre, who I've always pictured as one of the goths in comedy gore advertising the London Dungeon.

― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 11:17 (seven years ago)

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