How do you pronounce Meme

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  • Capt_Inzane
    Capt_Inzane Posts: 733 Member
    meme
    /mēm/
    Noun
    An element of a culture or behavior that may be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, esp. imitation.
    An image, video, etc. that is passed electronically from one Internet user to another.

    If you google it, you'll also have the option of clicking on a little speaker and listening to it

    ARG I did the same thing but you beat me to it

    "Define "whatever word" in google will give you the definition
  • PNOD
    PNOD Posts: 35
    I have always pronounced it meem Idk if its right but no one has ever corrected me lol

    That's because this is correct

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
  • MNA76
    MNA76 Posts: 1,541
    A meme (pron.: /ˈmiːm/; meem)
  • Lupercalia
    Lupercalia Posts: 1,857 Member
    It's "MEEM".
  • Rogiefreida
    Rogiefreida Posts: 567 Member
    My 15 yo nephew told me it's pronounced "meem".

    I always thought it was "me me" like it's spelled, but, as he pointed out to me, I'm old so I wouldn't know the right way to say it. :noway:
  • hungrywhodat
    hungrywhodat Posts: 40 Member
    It is pronounced meem. There is no question about this.

    Richard Dawkins created the term, and specifically stated that he wanted it to sound like "gene".

    Direct citation from his book is in the wikipedia article
  • YoungDoc2B
    YoungDoc2B Posts: 1,593 Member
    I always thought it was "meh me"
  • Desterknee
    Desterknee Posts: 1,056 Member
    NOOOOOo I said I would cut her because she was drunk and got in my face about it!!!

    ETA: I've always pronounced it meem

    that is the correct way:

    Dictionary.com
    meme
    [meem] Show IPA
    noun
    a cultural item that is transmitted by repetition in a manner analogous to the biological transmission of genes.

    Being right makes me moist.
  • knitwit0704
    knitwit0704 Posts: 376
    It's me-m. Like me, then just a plain m sound. Mimi is me-me, in fact, I call one of my grandmothers that.
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    I pronounce it "meem" as in rhymes with "cream".

    http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/meme

    :)

    This. And if my teenage kid tells me how to say something internety I know it is correct. Meem!
  • knitwit0704
    knitwit0704 Posts: 376
    Yeah, meem!
  • DontStopB_Leakin
    DontStopB_Leakin Posts: 3,863 Member
    NOOOOOo I said I would cut her because she was drunk and got in my face about it!!!

    ETA: I've always pronounced it meem

    that is the correct way:

    Dictionary.com
    meme
    [meem] Show IPA
    noun
    a cultural item that is transmitted by repetition in a manner analogous to the biological transmission of genes.

    Being right makes me moist.
    In for moistness.


    Also, I will straight up smack anyone who pronounces it "me-me."
  • Valera0466
    Valera0466 Posts: 319 Member

    It would be pronounced mémé in French ( m-eh m-eh)

    ^^This^^
  • CristinaL1983
    CristinaL1983 Posts: 1,119 Member
    Since it was started as a variation on the word "Gene", I always pronounced it in the same manner. Meem
  • servilia
    servilia Posts: 3,452 Member
    Like "chem"
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,149 Member
    My friends and I have always pronounced it "mehm" as in the first syllable of "memory"

    You are not alone.
  • chelseascounter
    chelseascounter Posts: 1,283 Member
    I pronounced it "Mi-mi" for the longest... But it's "Meem."
  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    We always pronounced it meem in my anthropology classes. I don't know how the internet pronounces it.
  • billsica
    billsica Posts: 4,741 Member
    Is it pronounced the same in the United States as it in in Canada?

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  • PhearlessPhreaks
    PhearlessPhreaks Posts: 890 Member
    meem. The second e changes the sound of the first e from a short vowel ( eh sound, like men) to a long vowel.
  • skeo
    skeo Posts: 471 Member
    meem is how I've always pronounced, and never thought otherwise..lol, though honestly, if I heard someone say "meme" I would laugh.hahaha
  • Doodlewhopper
    Doodlewhopper Posts: 1,018 Member
    Yall be wrong. Down here in these parts we pronounce it "maam"
  • reddi2roll
    reddi2roll Posts: 356 Member
    I pronounce it with a French twist:

    Mohn Mohn

    It would be pronounced mémé in French ( m-eh m-eh)

    This is the correct way as I understand it but my family says me me ;D
  • brower47
    brower47 Posts: 16,356 Member
    I always pronounced it like I was saying men but with an m. I only hear it said like meem. I think I was wrong and have since changed my pronunciation (just in the last few weeks actually).
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    WTF is meme?? Please enlighten me????

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  • CollegiateGrief
    CollegiateGrief Posts: 552 Member
    "meem"

    /endthread
  • escloflowneCHANGED
    escloflowneCHANGED Posts: 3,038 Member
    Is it pronounced the same in the United States as it in in Canada?

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    Z = ZED not ZEE!!!!
  • faedreamer1
    faedreamer1 Posts: 47 Member
    It's pronounced meem. I think Tumblr did a very scientific sort of study on the subject. *nods* For science.
  • iAMsmiling
    iAMsmiling Posts: 2,394 Member
    Does that word even exist outside of the internet?

    I've only ever seen it in writing and have never spoken it.
  • DollyMiel
    DollyMiel Posts: 377 Member
    If you're really from the internet, you'd know....

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