How do YOU say it?

Never heard it called anything other than marshmallow.

Scots pronounce words much more phonetically than the English do. This is why the BBC employ Scottish speakers as news readers so often.
They pronounce the H in where, who, why, when etc and both the Ds in Wednesday..
Of course it's mallow though autocorrect wanted me to write mellow .
I also hate ther or thuh when saying the. It's just lazy.

Yes, I noticed that when I spent a lot of time there.
If it is 'mallow' then it must be correct to call it so.
I hadn't really thought about how I pronounced it until this thread.

I've never heard anyone say marshmellow, but I can imagine that perhaps that's the way the Queen says it.
Has your DGD been watching The Crown, Maw?

The hard 'a' is mostly a northern/scottish sound.
Maw - ask your DGD how to say 'bad'. If she says 'bed'?

Dear me.
Seck the Nenny.

alsaQueen Thu 14-Feb-19 10:32:54
Mellow. Everyone I know says mellow. It perhaps is a regional thing? I live in Derby, East Midlands

So I am not imagining it!

My DGD certainly does not pronounce “bad” as “bed” at 4 she is unlikely to have even heard of “The Queen” or been exposed to those clipped 50’s vowels that some of us remember from Mrs Dales Diary.
I do not agree that it is anything to do with h any “ah/eh” bowel dialect variation either, but if anything I first heard it in London/SE English.

Oh my eazybee your prejudices are showing.
Is having childcare something to apologise for? ?

No problem with regional accents here but I do mind bad enunciation from persons paid to speak on the radio or TV,

Apparently the roots of Marsh Mallow/^Althaea officinalis^ were originally used to made this sweet.

Althaea officinalis

I mind bad enunciation in anyone except toddlers.

Maw we are all wondering about your 'bowel dialect variations' !
Sounds painful.
I say marshmellow but actually write mallow.

“B” and “V” ARE next to each other oops!
vowels natch!

So another vote for “marsh mellows”
I am assuming that you are neither The Queen nor Mrs Dale?

Maw I know what its like with these keys!
I don't have any accent at all but I am from up north, Cheshire.
Just phoned two friends to check, and they both say mellow ....both Northern ladies.

I’m Irish and would always say mallow. Years ago an Irish friend was teaching English in Germany and was called in by her boss because of her pronunciation. Apparently they wanted the children to learn “Received Pronunciation “ (RP) English, where the a is said more like e. “Man” sounds more like “men” in RP, and mallow, mellow.

I have now had to google to find out why it is called marshmallow



when I should be gardening, trimming the mallow.

Mallow. There's no e in it.

It's m*a*llow for me. Like the plant. Always has been.

(However, I do feel at home when people speak of their garridge, rather than their garaaaage, so I'm not a southerner, or posh!) .

because it used to be made from marshmallow root.

Yes Baggs

Actually I don't think I say the word, I don't like them!

Me neither, but I must listen to DGD2 next time she has some!

I love marshmallows - and I pronounce them mallow, not mellow. But I seem to recall that as a child our family pronounced them marshmellows; not sure when or why that changed with me. Have I become less or more posh?

Everyone has an accent of some sort – even received pronunciation is an accent. I have now got used to the vowel shift that has happened in New Zealand English, whereby the short e has shifted to a short i – hard-boiled iggs.