How do you pronounce Meme

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  • knitwit0704
    knitwit0704 Posts: 376
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    Yeah, meem!
  • DontStopB_Leakin
    DontStopB_Leakin Posts: 3,863 Member
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    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
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    It would be pronounced mémé in French ( m-eh m-eh)

    ^^This^^
  • CristinaL1983
    CristinaL1983 Posts: 1,119 Member
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    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
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    Like "chem"
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,135 Member
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    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
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    I pronounced it "Mi-mi" for the longest... But it's "Meem."
  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
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    We always pronounced it meem in my anthropology classes. I don't know how the internet pronounces it.
  • billsica
    billsica Posts: 4,741 Member
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    Is it pronounced the same in the United States as it in in Canada?

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  • PhearlessPhreaks
    PhearlessPhreaks Posts: 890 Member
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    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
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    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
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    Yall be wrong. Down here in these parts we pronounce it "maam"
  • reddi2roll
    reddi2roll Posts: 356 Member
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    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
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    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: 41,868 Member
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    WTF is meme?? Please enlighten me????

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  • CollegiateGrief
    CollegiateGrief Posts: 552 Member
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    "meem"

    /endthread
  • escloflowneCHANGED
    escloflowneCHANGED Posts: 3,038 Member
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    If you're really from the internet, you'd know....

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