ibex94

etsy as in eatsy beetsy spider went up the water spout. hee hee, regionally I bet most say itsee bitsee spider.....

ibex94

so what's the difference in your part of the world with how you say Mary, marry, and merry?

zozee

I've never heard anything except the short e (eh). Etsy as in Betsy is how I say it, so it MUST be right! LOL

nativetexan

I've heard it that way in t.v. and they can't be wrong! or can they? Someone on t.v. today kept calling a man Mario and would say mary O. grrrr. poor man.

suern3

Well now I had to go get my books out to look and the name of our book is Itsy Bitsy Spider, nothing to do with eatsy beetsy......

Jeanne S

same here!

Jingle

I say like Betsy without the B.

I hear so many mispronounced words now days, I wonder if any one ever had them look in a dictionary. I was taught pronunciation straight out of the dictionary in the 50s.

sewbizgirl

I call it Etsy like Betsy... but we are all just guessing. Ask on the Etsy site if you really want to know.

Yooper32

Betsy Etsy for me.

MarleneC

I do "e" as in "Edward" or "petty".