How do you pronounce turquoise?

[Emmagen]

Having a small disagreement with DH, is it;

Turk-wise
Or
Turk-woys
Or other.

How do you say quay or mosquito? No 'w' sound in them

Turkoyce

As it is a french rooted word the Oi produces the ‘w’ sound as in croissant. Etc. Or Renoir.

But I say tur-coys mostly rather than go full-on french.

Tur-Kwoice (end rhymes with voice)

This is probably closer to how people say it round here.

Turk-waaas

But turkwoise is the only phonetically logical Anglicised pronunciation. ‘qu’ before a vowel is ‘kw’. ‘oi’ gives the vowel sound from ‘toy’ or ‘boy’.

I'm not going to offer an opinion , just wanted to say it's an excellent question.

Bloody ‘bwillyant’ question.

But turkwoise is the only phonetically logical Anglicised pronunciation.

That is true (and that's how I pronounce it), but let's face it, since when did the English language consistently follow logical pronunciation rules?

‘qu’ before a vowel is ‘kw’.

Not in 'queue' or 'technique'.

Very true @lazylinguist. Darned English!

'Queue' and 'technique' are French words, though. The way English say them are just an Anglicised version of the French way.
As is 'turquoise'....gah!

Turkwoys.

I can accept turk-oys.

But rhyming with voice or waaaahs are clearly nonsense

But rhyming with voice or waaaahs are clearly nonsense grin

The waaahs isn't nonsense if you're pronouncing it like French, which is where it came from.

I hope you say par-ee then too...

Turk woys

Turk oyz

@Smidge001 but there’s French words you pronounce like ballet and bouquet etc

I’m not sure why we do some and not others though...

Tur kwoys

@MiddleClassProblem that is so true! There's never a rule is there .

Tur kwoys.

I see the logic in the other ways but they sound odd to me. Well, tur koys sounds American and tur quaz sounds affected!

I hope you say par-ee then too...

No I don't (unless I'm speaking in French). I wasn't saying people should pronounce it turkwaahz (I don't). I was just saying it's not really 'nonsense' to pronounce it that way, considering it does come from French.