Is Schedule to be pronounced as Skedool or as shedool

or is to something else altogether?

AmE - [skedZ..l]
BrE - [SedZ..l]

ske jewel

shed yule

What native English speaker says "ske jewel" or "shed yule"? The last syllable is unaccented, thereby turning the "u" into a schwa.

A North American English speaker does.

http://www.dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?dict=CALD&key=70272&ph=on

says

/Sed-ju:l/ US /sked-ju:l/

but I say

/SedZu(:)l/

Where /u(:)/ is a short /u:/ (I don't think the Camb. Dic. makes this distinction.)

You have a lisp, do you, Jim?

Who said anything about having a lisp? If I'd said I pronounce the word as /thkedZu(:)/, then you're post would have made sense.

Definition
lisp (SPEECH)
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verb [I]
to pronounce 's' and 'z' sounds like 'th'

lisp
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noun [C]
I was teased a lot at school because I spoke with a lisp.

http://www.dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=46515&dict=CALD

"... your post ..." not "... you're post ..."

Schedule is artificial pronunciation. I've heard that not even all British and Canadians pronounce it that way.

Schedule pronounced shed-jool that is.

How so?

SCHEDULE, originally a written strip or leaf of paper or parchment, a label or ticket, especially when attached to another document, as explaining or adding to its contents, hence any additional detailed statement such as cannot conveniently be embodied iii the main statement. The word occurs first (14th century) as cedule, or sedule, representing the Fr. cedule (mod. cdule, cf. Ital. cedola, Ger. Zettel, &c.), which is derived from Late Lat. scedula or schedula, dim. of sceda, a written strip of parchment (late Gr. ~ probably from scindere, to cleave, cf. scind ala, a shingle. The original pronunciation in English was sedule, the modern pronunciation is shedule; American usage has gone back to the original Latin or Greek, and adopts skedule.

http://84.1911encyclopedia.org/S/SC/SCHEDULE.htm

ETYMOLOGY: Middle English sedule, slip of parchment or paper, note, from Old French cedule, from Late Latin schedula, diminutive of scheda, variant of Latin scida, papyrus strip, from Greek skhida, skhed; akin to perhaps akin to skhizein, to split.

http://www.bartleby.com/61/22/S0132200.html

Certainly /sk/ better reflects the Latin/Greek origin but /S/ is a product of natural evolution. Which is the more "artificial"?

I can picture a caveman handing another caveman a lemming skin job description with a leaf schedule stapled to it.