How do you pronounce Houmous

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Argument with dd on how to pronounce houmous. We say hyoumus. She says friends at school all say hummus. Looked online it said hoomus. How do you say it?

How did you even get to saying "hymous"??

I say hummus

Hummus

We say hummus

Hummus

Is hummus 'hum - us'
What is the way you say it? 'Huh - you -mus'
I think we say 'hoo-mus'

Huhmus

Hummus

What is hyoumous?!

Huh muss

My mum says hyu muss. Maybe that’s the way it was said when it first appeared and older people have stuck to it.

I say hoo with an oo like in book.

Whomis

Or a bit closer to huh actually.

Parents say hoo-mus, but we (like our friends) say hum-mus

Hum us

Who-mus

Hum-mus exactly like it's spelt...

Might you be unconsciously mixing it up with a kind of soil? www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/humus/

Like the hum sound in human? No. I say hoom-us with the oo as in book, rather than cool.

Hummus. It's often spelled like that, so I say it that way.

The Greek way which is Houmi

HOOM-uhs.

huh-mus. The initial bit rhymes with the vowel sound in wood rather than the vowel sound in bus iykwim.

When my DC were younger we watched an episode of Delia Smith where she made hummus and she pronounced it "hoomoosse" which the DC found hilarious. For the next few weeks the kept pronouncing it like that but fortunately the novelty wore off.

Reasoning: It's spelt either houmous or hummus. Human is pronounced that way because effectively the single consonant and the a turns hum into a split phoneme (hume = hyoom). That doesn't work with either of the spellings of houmous.

It can't be hum-muss either because that doesn't fit with the spelling houmous.

I can’t even make out how you’re saying it.

I say hoom-us but it’s a short oo like an u

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My mum says hyu muss. Maybe that’s the way it was said when it first appeared and older people have stuck to it.
Maybe that is the case with me? My mum has always loved Mediterranean food so we started having it when she first found it in the shops in the early 80s.