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How do you pronounce the word Praline?

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HelloMama · 11/05/2015 13:08

How do you pronounce the word praline, as in posh, nutty chocolate?

  1. Praw-leen
  2. Pray-line
  3. Prah-leen?


3 different people in our family say it 3 different ways- Who is right?!
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MrsEricBana · 11/05/2015 13:09

Prah-leen

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CloserToFiftyThanTwenty · 11/05/2015 13:10

3

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jaynebxl · 11/05/2015 13:10
  1. It's french innit?
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TheHoundsBitch · 11/05/2015 13:11

3

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Hexiegone · 11/05/2015 13:11

3

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GrouchyKiwi · 11/05/2015 13:12
  1. Yum.
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DextersMistress · 11/05/2015 13:12

3

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HelloMama · 11/05/2015 14:55

It's a mumsnet unanimous verdict! Hooray! I win :-) Thank you all so much [rubs hands with glee!]

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SirVixofVixHall · 11/05/2015 15:04

Well I have always said Prah-lean, but my (properly posh) MIL says pray-lean.

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morethanpotatoprints · 11/05/2015 15:06

prowline

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DuncanQuagmire · 11/05/2015 15:07

prah leen

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YDdraigGoch · 11/05/2015 15:09

The French way "prah leen"

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TooManyHouseGuests · 11/05/2015 15:11

If it's a burnt sugar candy studded with pecans, then it's a "prah lean."

If it's a fancy bite of chocolate then maybe a pray-line.

I am dead certain about the first (and if anyone wants my grandma's recipe, I'll share.) not quite so sure about the last though.

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DuelingFanjo · 11/05/2015 15:19

I say Pray-lean - whoops, is that terrible wrong?

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InAndOfMyself · 11/05/2015 15:22

Pray-lean

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123Jump · 11/05/2015 15:22

DuelingFanjo so do I! I like to think we are exclusively right.

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AlbrechtDurer · 11/05/2015 15:26

Americans use 2.
I have never heard 1.
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AtomicDog · 11/05/2015 15:34

Pra-leen-ay
There is an acute accent on the final e

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SenecaFalls · 11/05/2015 15:36

Americans use 2

Not in New Orleans. I'm American. I have lived in New Orleans, the land of pralines in the US, where the correct pronunciation is prah-lean so that is how I pronounce it.

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YDdraigGoch · 11/05/2015 15:42

Atomic, there's no apostrophe.


How does everyone pronounce "nougat"?

My common family have always sayd "nuggat", but I've recently heard "Noogah".

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holmessweetholmes · 11/05/2015 15:42
  1. I have never heard 1.
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Lilymaid · 11/05/2015 15:47

Prah-leen and Noogah.
There is an acute accent on the last letter of praline only when it is an adjective.

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holmessweetholmes · 11/05/2015 16:38

Yy to the version with the accent being an adjective - du chocolat praliné - 'pralined' chocolate.

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holmessweetholmes · 11/05/2015 16:39

Grr - why don't accents work on the MN app?!Angry

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anothermakesthree · 11/05/2015 19:59

Pray leen

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