Pronunciation

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

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

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.

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

Magsymoo - this is ^Pedant's Corner!

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

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

I flinch when people pronounce the g in tagliatelle!

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.

Turmeric pronounced too-meric gets me too.

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

But I call scallops "scollops"

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

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

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.

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

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’.

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

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’.

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.

😯

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!

Oh no!

And I say scollops.
But never order them so that's ok.

SueDonim

My MIL was raised by an ayah in India from the age of six weeks and she pronounced turmeric as ‘tumeric’. I think that’s as genuine a pronunciation as any! She said it was considered back then (1920/30’s) as a low-class ingredient, only to be used if you couldn’t afford other spices.

Oh my goodness, I have just realised I call it tumeric! I always thought the DD were pronouncing it incorrectly as turmeric but, being a kind Mum, never corrected them.

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

Aveline

How about scallops pronounced scallops?

Scallops pronounced scallops - how is that?

RosiesMaw

Why do some people refer to Turmeric as “tuemeric” ?
Burn, turn, spurn, murmur……

Because I thought that was how it was spelt! Didnt realise it had two rs.
I just asked my DH how he pronounces it. He said "timeric"!

My late father in law always called saute potatoes sortie potatoes, I did mutter once after he'd said it several times, "potatoes still looking for the way out then" but he just gave me a blank stare, so I shut up after that!

Then there's 'scones'

Basically, I believe we all pronounce words as we first heard them or were taught them.

I certainly talk of tuemeric, not turmeric, as that is what everyone I have ever known who uses the spice, calls it.

I also say tomato with a long, dark a, not tomayto, and like most Scots can hear and say a difference between which and witch, which I believe other native speakers of English cannot.

How we actually say words is as much subject to regional variations as grammar is.