Is it pronounced finance or finance?
Yet, there is one puzzling question that the profession has never settled on nor even addressed: the pronunciation of the word spelled f-i-n-a-n-c-e. There are generally two acceptable pronunciations, fi- nance, where the accent is on the first syllable, and fi-nance, where the accent is on the second syllable.
How do you pronounce this word Financial?
Why is finance pronounced differently?
Why do some people pronounce finance, “finánce”? “Finance” as a noun entered English from French in the 1400s. The French pronunciation had the accent on the second syllable. English speakers who borrowed the word from French were being true to the French pronunciation by accenting the second syllable.
How do you read the word finance?
So personally I would say the correct pronunciation of finance is the one with FINE-ANCE but if the context required the different in which maybe for example you say ‘I have my finances‘ I would suggest you use the noun pronunciation as FIN-ANCE because in that context, the word finance is serving as the name of thing