How do you pronounce ciabatta

[TrixieFranklin]

I've just realised my husband, mum and dad all pronounce Ciabatta completely differently.
Between them they say:
Key-a-bar-ter
Chee-bar-ter
Chee-a-bat-cha

Now I've been saying it, looking at it and thinking about it too much and the whole word looks ridiculous now!

How do you say it?

Cross ont is ignorant AF.

The American pronunciation 'cruh-SAUNT' is worse.

is it possibly that different regional Italian accents might pronounce a word differently? You know, like we do here?

I just can't get on board with Cwass-awn.

Italian speaking with Italian husband. It's most definitely cha-batta.

Is it possibly that different regional Italian accents might pronounce a word differently? You know, like we do here?

I guess, but I doubt it with something like that. If you google pronunciation of ciabatta, every single entry says the same. The 'i' turning the 'c' to a 'ch' and the 'g' to a 'j' is a pretty much inherent feature of the language. Think about how you pronounce 'ciao' - nobody would pronounce it 'chee-ow'. It's 'chow'.

You're all getting it wrong, you fools. The actual authentic pronunciation is here:

Is it possible that different regional Italian accents might pronounce a word differently?

Italian pronunciation is very standardised, unlike English.

Chee a batta. That's how the Italian owners of our local Italian restaurant pronounce it...

Did they voice the Dolmio adverts as well

It's a shame spurious's autocorrect kept changing rhotic to rhetoric, because otherwise it was very useful.

Most definitely cha-batta.

I just can't get on board with Cwass-awn.

Why not, CassianAndor? I don't understand why someone would choose to pronounce something incorrectly when the correct pronunciation isn't difficult.

my dad is from the Charente region in France - he pronounces it crwa-son (with a bit of a swallowed g at the end) - there is a definite r in there - maybe he's been pronouncing it wrong for his 83 years

Cha batta

Bread.

Cheh-batteh. But I'm a scouser. I can say foccacia properly as well.
I think a PP meant rhotic and nob-rhotic accents, not rhetorical.

Italian speaking with Italian husband. It's most definitely cha-batta.
Me too.

nob-rhotic

Chee a batta

Beyond aha! I feel vindicated. Kind of .

iklboo hahaha! Non!

Chubatta.

Thank you all

Huh - I missed that. Did someone claim there was no 'r' sound in croissant? There definitely is! French teacher here (not native speaker, but someone who's been trying to teach people to pronounce French correctly for 20 years!).

Like Beyond says, it's something like crwassong. It's impossible to write a phonetic rendering of the French 'ant' sound in English though. Lots of Brits can't pronounce the French 'r' either anyway. It's a bit alien to our mouths/throats!

I used to go to a particular sandwich shop every day because the woman working there entertained me so much. She was adamant that ciabatta was pronounced see ya batta.

Me: tuna ciabatta (pronounced correctly) please.

Assistant: a tuna see ya batta?

Me: a tuna ciabatta, yes, please.

It was great. She was brooking no argument and felt the need to correct every customer capable of pronouncing the word properly. I wonder if she ever worked out that she had it wrong?

Chee a battah

Ch'batta