Insulin

Sarah69

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Hi, can anyone tell me why people pronounce insulin as inshulin?
 

db89

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I don't - I pronounce it like 'in-syu-lin'..
 

Juicyj

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It could be a local dialect, I pronounce it as insulin.
 

Guzzler

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Does it matter?
 

Listlad

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To be fair to the OP I have heard it both ways. But my thinking is, why not?
 

Chook

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Up here in the area of Yorkshire where I live it seems to be mainly called 'inslun'.