Pronunciation

I say /ter-meric/ but everyone else says /too-mrik. I don't know which one is correct. Also, I say /skahnz' and everyone else says /sconez/ so I don't know who is correct but my mum always made /skahnz/. It's funny.

On a Radio4 food programme there was a conversation with one broadcaster saying ‘turmeric’ and the other ‘tewmeric’. I asked my Indian co-grandmother who was definite that in Allahabad it was ‘turmeric’.

From the horse’s mouth - ter - mer - ick

At one time ‘mare’ and ‘mayor’ were pronounced the same. Over the past few years the latter is often pronounced ‘May-or’.
That is not what we heard on Children’s Hour’s Toy Town. Larry the Lamb used to bleat ‘Mr Mayor, Sir’ as ‘mare’.

I was annoyed by "vineg-er- rette" recently. It's vinaigrette, like regret.

Aveline

Yes. Just checked and my phone changed what I wrote which was scollops. I don't know why some people pronounce scallops as scollops!

I call them scollops.
Ditto a ‘scolloped’ (scalloped) edge to something.

When did ogle start being pronounced "oggle" (like toggle)?

I've heard it a lot recently and twice this morning!

Turmeric pronounced too-meric gets me too.

Mischievous pronounced mis-chee-vee-ous annoys me.

But I call scallops "scollops"

Scallops pronounced as scollops sounds pretentious to my ears but I do know that it is a regional thing and my complaint is not at all valid. So no criticism intended to any scollopers.
Turmeric is tur-mer-ic when I can actually remember what it is called. My word retrieval is dire at times.

I flinch when people pronounce the g in tagliatelle!

We all need to chill about so called ‘mispronunciations’. English is not a phonetic language. So many words , for all kinds of reasons , are not pronounced as they are spelt - bough, dumb, chaos etc etc

Magsymoo - this is ^Pedant's Corner!

I think we all know - but we are allowed to dislike things just the same.

What about these?
February pronounced Febuary oh dear. Prefer Febry.
Probably pronounced proberly, also oh dear.
Prefer probly.

Aveline

Yes. Just checked and my phone changed what I wrote which was scollops. I don't know why some people pronounce scallops as scollops!

Scollops is correct and scallops is an alternative because most people don't know that scollops is actually the correct version.

I was one of those people so I looked up the word in dictionaries that give phonetic pronunciations. /skol'ep always comes first. Sorry, can't seem to do the schwa for the e.

Scallops is the correct spelling. Scollops is the correct pronunciation.

Don't care. I still think scallops sounds correct and scollops sounds silly, so there!

hollysteers

I flinch when people pronounce the g in tagliatelle!

Oops! That’s me!
How would/could you say it without the ‘g’? I can’t make sense of it.
🤔

Wheniwasyourage

Don't care. I still think scallops sounds correct and scollops sounds silly, so there!

I like scallops, not scollops and my blind has scalloped, not scolloped edges.
Whatever you learn, or prefer to use is the correct pronunciation. After all,
does anyone say shollow instead of shallow?
Or collow instead of callow or eat marsh mollows?
I must admit though that my hippopotamus was wollowing in mud not wallowing.

Oh! I agree, whenimyourage. I just don’t buy them 😂.

I think it's all a load of ballocks.

MissAdventure

I think it's all a load of ballocks.

😅

Urms, the g would not be sounded in Italian, so we’re just going along with the original pronunciation.

How about chorizo, according to a Spanish friend it's pronounced "choritho".

I think it would be chorizo, not choritho in South America and possibly in Southern Spain, Freya5, so it's nice to think that we are not the only ones who can be totally confused!

Primrose53

What about Quinoa?

My friend insists it’s pronounced Kenya but I think it’s keenwah.

I have always said keen - oh - uh for as long as I remember.