re: How Do Yall Pronounce "Envelope"?

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There are two answers to that riddle

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how exactly is eye an answer?

merriam webster has NO "in" variation.


The \'en-\ and \'än-\ pronunciations are used with about equal frequency, and both are fully acceptable, though the \'än-\ version is sometimes decried as “pseudo-French.” Actually \'än-\ is exactly what one would expect to hear when a French word like entrepreneur is becoming anglicized. Envelope, however, has been in English for nearly 300 years, plenty of time for it to become completely anglicized and for both of its pronunciations to win respectability.
First Known Use of ENVELOPE

circa 1714

Is "in" a southern thing? I have never heard anyone use anything other than "on" or "en".

"in" velope