>>Channel 4 over here started showing American Football a few years ago and I used to watch it occasionally (until the children arrived, at which point sleep became an overriding issue (NOT pronounced ishyoo)).
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>Well, what did you think? The only problem I have with it is that there is a lot of standing around between plays (translate: less talk, more fight). How would issue be pronounced if not 'ishyoo'?

Issue rhymes with 'hiss-you'. Just kidding. I think this started out with alumin-I-um (tee hee). I am always getting told that schedule is pronounced shedyool wheras I say skedyool - it probably depends upon which shool (school) you went to...