Help me with words I can’t pronounce

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Prompted by a few recent threads. I’ve realised there are loads of words I can’t pronouce. I can probably google or something but all together here seems better.

I’ve only in the last number of years figured out hyperbole is not hyper bowl and superfluous is not super-flu-us

Here are ones I still can’t pronounce..

Archetypal
Macabre
Gillet
Hegemony
Chipotle

There’s actually loads more I just can’t think of now.

I think it’s meant to be more LEH than LAY but I mangle almost every word in every language 😀

How is Bethesda pronounced please?! yes, what 3out said. Which by the way, is a city in the state of Maryland, which is pronounced MA-ra-lund (or variation), not Mary-land.

@HotpotLawyer 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

Peen-oh-shay

I thought Maryland was more like Maralind

Chorizo, anyone? it's more fun than guacamole (to pronounce as well as to eat.)

I thought Maryland was more like Maralind. That's why I said variation. Mainly though it's not Mary-land.

I know how to say chorizo in Spain like chureetho but in England for some reason you have to apply an Italian style pronunciation and say a hard CH and a Tz o

Albeit?

I know the pronunciation due to hearing it at church @SenecaFalls, but mostly I know it thanks to Leroy Jethro Gibbs 😂😂

Snog I say it ALL-BE-IT but no idea if that's right!

Pronunciation of hegemony came up a lot during my international relations course . Consensus was that it was a hard g. Heg a monny.

How does puh-can differ from purr-can?’

One has Rs in it, the other one doesn’t. A cat doesn’t puhhh, but it does purrr

Well, you see, the way I say it, they do both!

I think that depends on whether you have a rhotic accent or non-rhotic.

Lost me there, but the video helped a bit, thanks!

Bethesda = Beth ez da.

Bruschetta

Marylebone
albeit
et cetera
Happisburgh and Wymondham in Norfolk

I know bruschetta as I have studied Italian for some years. It is brusketta. Ch in Italian is pronounced like K in English.

Chor-REE-thor with the posh sounding "or".
Gwa-ka-MOL-e or even Wak-a-MOL are acceptable spanish pronounciations, resulting in the hilariously titled whack-a-mole game. :-)

It's not "ay" or "eee" it's just like the "e" in "egg."

Brusketta

I think it depends where in Italy though, Sicilians seem to add sshhh sounds to everything

I live in east Anglia and I still struggle with some Norfolk and Suffolk place names - sproughton is one I can’t ever get right

Puh-cahn the Puh is like if you're sounding out a p for a small child, short and quick. Think like the beginning of pub. Pu(b)-cahn.

But I say pee-can as I'm British.

I think a lot of English people would think that too Frangipane (no idea if you’re English or not!), I don’t think you’re wrong, but the ‘ah’ sound in a Scottish accent could never be confused with the ‘ar’ sound. They’re such different sounds here!

Albeit is simply, as said by a PP all be it. Slight emphasis on be.

Marylebone I can pronounce as I was born and lived in London for years but it is hard to write down phonetically.

I live in a state with a lot of Spanish speakers and where Spanish is the main foreign language taught in schools. But it's Latin American Spanish, so cho-ree-so.

Oh loads of replies, thank you. Inconsiderate Dh asked for help making dinner 🙄😁

I’d never heard hegemony until a couple of days ago. Can’t remember where I saw it but I thought it was hedge money which I do know and thought I had confused for years 🤷🏻‍♀️

So is it keen-wah? That’s what I’ve been calling it having called it quin-owa for years

Also cous cous? Coose coose or cus cus or something else?