Please help me settle an argument - how do you pronounce creosote?

[TheMatriarch]

DH and DSs pronounce it differently to me and insist that I’m wrong.
Can you write phonetically how you pronounce it?

Cree-oh-sowt

I say creo - soat

Kree-so

to rhyme with moat

Cree oh sowt

But quickly, not like with emphasis

Cre uh soat

Sowt to rhyme with moat?

yes

Yes matriarch

cree-o-sote - and where can I buy some, please? I think it's banned now and it's great for my fences. And I love the smell

Cree - a - soat

Cree o soat. Used to smell amazing

Kree - ah- soat said quickly.

I love the smell too. I remmber walking home from school in the summer where one of the neighbours would cerosote his long, long fence and I would just breathe deeply the whole way.

How do you pronounce it Matriarch?

Kree-ah-sote

Or Kreeh-uh-sote maybe.

Slight emphasis on Kree.

How else can you say it?

Does anyone pronounce it creo-sort?

That’s how dh and dss say it.
They have Yorkshire accents but take the piss out of me (with slight Yorkshire accent) saying creosote.

Ds has been at work this morning creosoting fences, if anyone likes the smell you’re welcome to him, he stinks!

Cree ohh soat

m.youtube.com/watch?v=jDFcWeJ6uNk

You’re right. But is it just accent?

That’s just their Yorkshire accent coming through but you are pronouncing it properly. Bit silly of them to be laughing at you!

creo sort is nonsense. My DH is from Yorkshire and he doesn't say it like that.

I say soat but if I say creosort I hear Yorkshire in my voice (I'm from Kent). I would have said it's just a strong accent you're hearing.

Oh, I love the smell of fresh 'cree-oh-soat' on a fence!

I think you're pronouncing it correctly OP, but I can see how a broad accent, particularly a Yorkshire one, could distort the end sound.