Do you pronounce “schedule” as “shed-yul,” “sed-yul,” or “sked-yul”?

Interestingly, the word “schedule” was NOT used in the Georgian era, or at least not how we use it today.

The term comes from the late 14th century, but it did not refer to a daily plan, list of appointments, or anything of the sort. It referred to a strip of paper with writing on it. Quite literally, if there was paper with writing on it, that was called a “schedule.” Quite different from how we use it today, isn’t it?

The first use of the word as a reference to a daily timetable is not until 1863, the Victorian era, and that was only for railway usage to refer to the printed train times. The use of it for personal daily timetables wasn’t used until the 1890s.

The pronunciation of the time was “sed-yul,” and remained so until well into the 20th century when it eventually changed to the British “shed-yul” and the American “sked-yul.”