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?

It’s just a different accent. It can’t be the only word you say differently though?

It’s beyond an accent, I know plenty of Yorkshire people who say creosote.

They also say porched eggs instead of poached.

I thought people didn’t use creosote anymore because it’s a carcinogen? Or what am I mixing it up with?

I think people still say creosote when they mean wood protector/stain/paint.

I'm proper Yorkshire tha knows and I pronounce it t' same way as thee.

whifflesqueak, yes, it's that link which produced the ban.

I say CREE-uh-soat

My FIL says CREE-uh-salt. I’ve know idea why.

*no!

I say Cree-o-soak. Feels embarrassed

Cree a sote (and I’m from Yorkshire).

I pronounce it 'cray oh soh tay'. Surely everyone does?

Yorkshire accents vary wildly depending on which bit you're in. I'd say Kree-ah-soat but some of my elder relatives would say 'sort', it's just the accent. The oh sounds get dragged out.
They're BU for taking the piss out of you but in their accent they aren't wrong either, just a bit Wath ;)

I say kree-oh-soat (to rhyme with boat) in my East Midlands accent, but I can totally hear it the other way in a Yorkshire accent. I know a few friends who grew up in different parts of Yorkshire and their accents and pronunciation can be quite different.

I'm from Yorkshire and pronounce it the same way as you, OP.
But I could leave the house now and find plenty of people who would say it like your DH and DS. Ditto the 'porched' eggs.

People round here regularly lengthen or change vowel sounds. They say, for example, coit for coat and coil for coal.

I love cray oh soh tay! I’m going to persuade them that that’s the only way to pronounce it!

Kree-O-suh-tay. No?

If they are from around Hull, it's their accent, and they would pronounce "moat" the way that you would pronounce 'mert".

Yeah, that's just a Yorkshire accent. DM's from near Sheffield.

The sote bit is pronounced with a z sound where I live (E Scotland).

Although in Sheffield it would be "cre-uh-soh-ut".