These 15 designs will show you how most of us are mispronouncing food words in our everyday food conversations.
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Share on FacebookIf you look up most of these in the dictionary they have multiple accepted pronunciations.
Accepted in English is one thing, correct native pronunciation is usually one.
Load More Replies...Let's ask the Italians if they pronounce 'pasta' like that! FFS! It's phonetic, it's pronounced as it's spelt. And onion is 'unyun'.
yep, from italy, it's pastA with a nice strong A at the end like the second one!
Load More Replies...it's chu-mus (but you anglos can't pronounce the ch/x so let's stay with just hoomus)
Load More Replies...Quinoa: "keenoah" is spanish pronociation - "keen-wa" is quechua prononciation.
these are American pronounciations, not necessarily correct. Pasta is pronounced correctly with a hard 'a'. for example.
Indeed. If Americans say it differently, it is wrong. That pretty much sums it up. They say 'bayzul' for basil when it should be 'ba-zul'. and 'urrrb' for 'herb'? That should be illegal.
Load More Replies...I'm really interested in accents and dialects, I used to tease my American friend about the way he pronounced "Jaguar", he said it "Jag waar" and us English pronounce it "Jag You Are"!
When, in fact, it's you who sounds ridiculous.
Load More Replies...As an English person, this seems to be a guide to sounding like a pretentious southerner.
If we are talking about some food preparation, ok, that can be interesting. But most of this is just pronunciation in English of randomly picked edibles (onion? almond?) and even of words that are not even English (boofay wtf?!).
mmm in Spanish is jalapeño, and quinoa sounds like keenoah in spanish.
Raspberry is incorrect, onion is incorrect, very unreliable information
As an English person, this seems like a guide to sounding like a pretentious southerner.
I am Italian, the correct"Pasta" is the first, the one pointed as wrong
Io ho letto "pass" come "pes" e non dico PESTA però forse il livello del mio inglese è scarso
Load More Replies...If you want to pronounce it that way, you're supposed to spell it 'Keenwah', which is the Quechan form. If you're going to spell it 'Quinoa' (Spanish form), it's pronounced 'Key-no-ah'. But honestly, if you say it either way, everyone knows what you're talking about. Is it really so important to press the point? Is it really worth halting the conversation you're having so that you can press your 'rightness' on someone else?
Definitely a geographic bias to quite a few of these. The author doesn't seem to take into account dialect/accent shifts that change how vowel use or syllables shift.
As a former barista, "expresso" just kills me. Kills me! There is no X!
Well screw English language with it's stupid spelling vs pronunciation issues! If there is a f*****g L in "Almond" I WILL pronounce it! And Hummus is pronounced as KH-OO-MUS ;)
You can add this one to the list: Pronunciation Nazi | En-light-end | Jerk | x | v
Want some AAHHH MUNDS?? Sorry I will stick with my mispronunciation and not sound like I am from New Jersey.
Let me just say...if you don't give enough of a s**t to spell something the way it should sound, I'm not going to lose any sleep over how I pronounce it.
They should do "radiator." My boyfriend and I fight about it all the time!
Not sure where you got the "correct" pronunciation from... Definitely got pasta wrong ...you couldn't even attempt to pronounce tortillas right... Unless you can manage to sound a nice and strong R which I doubt, you don't roll your tongue you vibrate it against your palate... Start trying. . .And Don't even bother with the double l...cocoa ...? Not even close, as pasta... Just as you spell it C O C O A Nothing to it... Bruschetta...Why would you even think of adding a K there is beyond me ...Quinoa is O no W and JALAPEÑO you'd have to start by spelling it right (with a Ñ...) to be able to attempt the proper pronunciation... Oh the joys of being bilingual... And actually knowing what you're talking about.. Don't post b******t...
Hey, Latin dingbats, no one cares! We're not speaking Spanish. We just want a f*****g taco!
Load More Replies...Really? People can't pronounce onion??? Or raspberry? Who are these people? And I disagree on "almond." The pronunciation in the U.S. includes the "l" sound (in the U.K. you might not find the "l" being pronounced).
Is this what the human race has come to..adult learning at a yr 1 level... Maybe people need to read more books than being so consumed in technology
Unless we're talking about dictionaries, reading more books is not going to help anyone pronounce oddly spelled words correctly.
Load More Replies...what about..... If you want people to read it correctly... Start writing it the way you pronounce it?! I mean ok, words are already written, but if you write it way different than a normal person with knowledge of alphabet will read them.. then well it's the word, not people.
If you look up most of these in the dictionary they have multiple accepted pronunciations.
Accepted in English is one thing, correct native pronunciation is usually one.
Load More Replies...Let's ask the Italians if they pronounce 'pasta' like that! FFS! It's phonetic, it's pronounced as it's spelt. And onion is 'unyun'.
yep, from italy, it's pastA with a nice strong A at the end like the second one!
Load More Replies...it's chu-mus (but you anglos can't pronounce the ch/x so let's stay with just hoomus)
Load More Replies...Quinoa: "keenoah" is spanish pronociation - "keen-wa" is quechua prononciation.
these are American pronounciations, not necessarily correct. Pasta is pronounced correctly with a hard 'a'. for example.
Indeed. If Americans say it differently, it is wrong. That pretty much sums it up. They say 'bayzul' for basil when it should be 'ba-zul'. and 'urrrb' for 'herb'? That should be illegal.
Load More Replies...I'm really interested in accents and dialects, I used to tease my American friend about the way he pronounced "Jaguar", he said it "Jag waar" and us English pronounce it "Jag You Are"!
When, in fact, it's you who sounds ridiculous.
Load More Replies...As an English person, this seems to be a guide to sounding like a pretentious southerner.
If we are talking about some food preparation, ok, that can be interesting. But most of this is just pronunciation in English of randomly picked edibles (onion? almond?) and even of words that are not even English (boofay wtf?!).
mmm in Spanish is jalapeño, and quinoa sounds like keenoah in spanish.
Raspberry is incorrect, onion is incorrect, very unreliable information
As an English person, this seems like a guide to sounding like a pretentious southerner.
I am Italian, the correct"Pasta" is the first, the one pointed as wrong
Io ho letto "pass" come "pes" e non dico PESTA però forse il livello del mio inglese è scarso
Load More Replies...If you want to pronounce it that way, you're supposed to spell it 'Keenwah', which is the Quechan form. If you're going to spell it 'Quinoa' (Spanish form), it's pronounced 'Key-no-ah'. But honestly, if you say it either way, everyone knows what you're talking about. Is it really so important to press the point? Is it really worth halting the conversation you're having so that you can press your 'rightness' on someone else?
Definitely a geographic bias to quite a few of these. The author doesn't seem to take into account dialect/accent shifts that change how vowel use or syllables shift.
As a former barista, "expresso" just kills me. Kills me! There is no X!
Well screw English language with it's stupid spelling vs pronunciation issues! If there is a f*****g L in "Almond" I WILL pronounce it! And Hummus is pronounced as KH-OO-MUS ;)
You can add this one to the list: Pronunciation Nazi | En-light-end | Jerk | x | v
Want some AAHHH MUNDS?? Sorry I will stick with my mispronunciation and not sound like I am from New Jersey.
Let me just say...if you don't give enough of a s**t to spell something the way it should sound, I'm not going to lose any sleep over how I pronounce it.
They should do "radiator." My boyfriend and I fight about it all the time!
Not sure where you got the "correct" pronunciation from... Definitely got pasta wrong ...you couldn't even attempt to pronounce tortillas right... Unless you can manage to sound a nice and strong R which I doubt, you don't roll your tongue you vibrate it against your palate... Start trying. . .And Don't even bother with the double l...cocoa ...? Not even close, as pasta... Just as you spell it C O C O A Nothing to it... Bruschetta...Why would you even think of adding a K there is beyond me ...Quinoa is O no W and JALAPEÑO you'd have to start by spelling it right (with a Ñ...) to be able to attempt the proper pronunciation... Oh the joys of being bilingual... And actually knowing what you're talking about.. Don't post b******t...
Hey, Latin dingbats, no one cares! We're not speaking Spanish. We just want a f*****g taco!
Load More Replies...Really? People can't pronounce onion??? Or raspberry? Who are these people? And I disagree on "almond." The pronunciation in the U.S. includes the "l" sound (in the U.K. you might not find the "l" being pronounced).
Is this what the human race has come to..adult learning at a yr 1 level... Maybe people need to read more books than being so consumed in technology
Unless we're talking about dictionaries, reading more books is not going to help anyone pronounce oddly spelled words correctly.
Load More Replies...what about..... If you want people to read it correctly... Start writing it the way you pronounce it?! I mean ok, words are already written, but if you write it way different than a normal person with knowledge of alphabet will read them.. then well it's the word, not people.
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