I'm pretty sure it's fee-day since it stands for Federation International D'Echecs (give or take some accents), and the D'Echecs part is pronounced 'day-shek'.
Well if it's French we need to drop the final e and say FEED
Oh no, and then one of the E's dropped out and it came together...and it was a word! AAAAA!!!
(From "Through Channels" by Richard Matheson...a very fun story I read in 6th grade.)
found this: The World Chess Federation is better known by its French name: Federation Internationale des Echecs, or, more commonly, its acronym--FIDE (pronounced Fee-day).
here: http://www.angelfire.com/games5/chessodyssey/uscffide.htm
100% of the time, you'll not be looked at weird for saying it fee-day. i have been to LOTS of tournaments, and been in chess clubs for years, and i've never heard it pronounced any other way.
I remember way back when I used to pronounce it as one syllable, as it looks in English (like the second syllable of "defied"). Of course, this was back in the days of Alikhein and Yuwee...
Well crepe...now I'm confused.
I'm pretty sure it's fee-day since it stands for Federation International D'Echecs (give or take some accents), and the D'Echecs part is pronounced 'day-shek'.
Well if it's French we need to drop the final e and say FEED
No, I think Gabriel is probably right: échecs begins not with an 'e' but with an 'é' and it is the accent that changes the sound. You don't see the accent when they write the acronym because they don't normally feature in capital letters, but FIDE is in fact 'fidé', or fi-day. (Ils sont où, les français?)
Rapping chess players tend to use the street pronunciation, "Fiddy".
Shakespeare wrote a play about this thread: "Much Ado About Nothing."
There was a movie made about this thread: The King's Speech.
Rapping chess players tend to use the street pronunciation, "Fiddy".
LOOOOLZ! got a good laugh out of me, it did. :D
Shakespeare wrote a play about this thread: "Much Ado About Nothing."
I thought it was "The Tempest (in a Teapot)."
Yes, it's like Fee-Day...!! Once I pronounced 'fide' like 'side' then I was told that it's not 'fa..ie..d' but it's just 'fi...day'...!!
Yes it's fee day.
I-Dee. The F is silent.
Stupid question? Hopefully not sorry.
I have only ever read FIDE on the internet and have never heard anyone say it. Does it rhyme with tide, or is it feed-eh or something else?
On YouTube and Chess.com videos it's pronounced, at least in American English, FEE-DUH, accent on the first syllable.
Assuming it's the same in the rest of the English-speaking world, that's it, Mate!
Oh dear what is this monster I have created?!?!?
Like I said, we'll all soon be in danger of joining them.
I think I've now decided that I will pronounce it FIDO.