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Vimto or Vimpto

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Woopthereitisman · 16/10/2024 22:36

How do you pronounce it?

For me, I say it like ‘Vimp-toe

Is this a Northern thing?

Also, can we agree a cold pint of Vimto is one of the best drinks ever

OP posts:
BluebellsareBlue · 17/10/2024 16:08

I had never even contemplated how I say it but now that you've forced me to.... haha I'm east of Scotland and I didn't know I did it but I def say vimpto!!

PiggieWig · 17/10/2024 16:04

I’m from Lancs and say it with a silent P. It sounds really strange to say Vimmto. It gives me a weird ick 😂

JMSA · 17/10/2024 16:02

I don't like the stuff but I'm Scottish and would say the 'p' Smile

JimmyGrimble · 17/10/2024 16:00

Manchester. Vimpto. Only the purple lidded version, never the blue. My grandad liked anagrams and always referred to it as ‘vomit’

BobbyBiscuits · 17/10/2024 15:24

I think I just say Vim-toe.
It used to be nice but they changed it. It's got loads of horrible sweetners on it now so I don't drink it anymore.
The drink I miss from my childhood was Ombongo!

DerekFaker · 17/10/2024 15:18

Vimto. I'm from the north east.

Fontainebleau007 · 17/10/2024 15:18

I say Vimpto but that's not as bad as my DH asking for some Vitamo once. I was very confused 😂 he was like "oh yeah that whatever it's called" 🙉

toomuchfaff · 17/10/2024 15:14

VimPto is God level

123becauseicouldntthinkofone · 17/10/2024 13:56

Another northerner and yes quiet p vimpto it is :)

cheesegromit13 · 17/10/2024 13:10

Vimp-toe here, I also say Hamp-ster. North East.

Riapia · 17/10/2024 13:00

A p in Vimto would definitely affect the taste.
😉😁😁.

LittleBobbyDazzler · 17/10/2024 12:58

I've been saying it over and over, said it so much now I can't for the life of me work out which way I say it and it doesn't sound like a real word anymore.

Fizzy only though the cordial is rank, only the best fizzy chemicals for me. Possibly because I'd never had the cordial til I was an adult and it never hit the same. Freezing cold ribena on the other hand, was my hangover go to as a teen / early 20s. It's also rank now.

muddyford · 17/10/2024 12:54

There's an area of Plymouth called Plympton - goodness knows why, as the river isn't the Plymp. Perhaps in the past it was written as someone said it.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 17/10/2024 12:54

I say it 'vimto' - and I lived in Manchester for 6 years, and never heard it pronounced with a P in it.

PaperBee · 17/10/2024 12:50

StillCreatingAName · 17/10/2024 12:44

Ha, good explanation @PaperBee but also anyone pronouncing it ‘Vimp-toe’ may say ‘dremm-t’ for ‘dreamt’

Edited

I think people just don’t often hear what they’re saying exactly. If I try really hard I can say vim-to with no p sound because it’s two syllables, but I can’t say dreamt without a p unless I completely separate it and say drem…. te.

StillCreatingAName · 17/10/2024 12:44

Ha, good explanation @PaperBee but also anyone pronouncing it ‘Vimp-toe’ may say ‘dremm-t’ for ‘dreamt’

PaperBee · 17/10/2024 12:40

Nothing to do with dialect. The p sound is what you get when your lips are in an m position and you hold then release air like in a t. We don’t completely separate sounds when we speak as if we’re in a phonics lesson saying c-a-t, the sounds overlap and blend together. So if you run m and t together you get a p sound appearing, see also dreamt.

ApolloandDaphne · 17/10/2024 12:39

Vimpto in my corner of Scotland.

buffyfaithspike · 17/10/2024 12:36

With a P
I'm from Lancashire

Ikilledtheorchidagain · 17/10/2024 12:36

Vimto. Northerner.
Only my friends had it my parents didn't buy it and how I savoured that drink at my friend's house. I still buy it sometimes and really enjoy it.
I can imagine how a cockney accent might sound out vimptoe.

Bonjovispjs · 17/10/2024 12:35

I'm southern and say Vimto. I have a cold pint in front of me right now, but made with fizzy water (sorry op)

This reminds me of a friend who insisted hamsters are called hampsters, she's a vet nurse 😆

Figment1982 · 17/10/2024 12:32

I definitely say Vimpto and I’m a southerner. And I concur OP, it is the most divine drink (but only the full sugar version)

MadKittenWoman · 17/10/2024 12:30

rainfallpurevividcat · 16/10/2024 22:47

I say Vimpto, as that's what everyone called it when we were growing up in Manchester.

Nope, I'm a Manc and it's Vimto!

MadKittenWoman · 17/10/2024 12:28

Northerner here. Primary school was opposite the factory or distribution centre. It's Vimto.

ClytemnestraWasMisunderstood · 17/10/2024 12:01

Vimto!
Great hot with a shot of rum when you have a cold.
Doesn't do anything clinically, but tastes good!