Chorizo

[batmanladybird]

How should it be pronounced?

spanish sausage

Chor - EE - tho

I say "Chore - reez- oh" or similar, but I know a lot of people say chore-rith-oh .. which I think sounds ridiculous unless you're Spanish.

Interested to know if there's another option!

Red filth

Cho-ree-tho, with the emphasis on the 'ree' . I live in Spain and anything else said in English sounds silly! My grandmother used to say Cho-rye-zo. No idea where she got that from!

Is there an accepted english equivalent though?
Eg I know how to pronounce parmigiano in Italian but I would still ask for Parmesan in the super market

So is it Chor eee Th o?

Chore eetho in most of Spain
Chore eezo in the South or South America.

What gets my goat is when people Italianise it with a pizza- style T as in “choritso”.

Chor-EE#tho
Chor-EE-so
Or, if you must, Chor-EE-zo

Never ever EVER Chor-ITZ-o!!!

We say it as chor-eet-so
People sound so wanky if they pronounce it chor-eet-tho
Or
Chor-is-zo
Unless they’re spanish

For some reason I thought this was in the ‘baby names’ topic when I saw it in the active threads list, and was very confused when I clicked on it, thinking ‘Chorizo? Surely not..’

Oh I’ve been saying it wrong with my
chor-ritz-oh then
I’ve got the whole family saying it wrong!

However you pronounce it there sure as shit isn’t a T in it
(I’m looking at you Gregg Wallace you cockwomble)

I say cho- REE- so because I learned my Spanish in the Americas but I'm just a poser.

How I should is different from how I actually pronounce it. I’d feel like such a twat if I pronounced it correctly.

Horeetho.

@shivermetimbers77

For some reason I thought this was in the ‘baby names’ topic when I saw it in the active threads list, and was very confused when I clicked on it, thinking ‘Chorizo? Surely not..’

But quite believable that it could be judging from some of the posts.

I always say the z, I think trying to pronounce like the Spanish do is wanky.
I also know how Mercia is pronounced and only go for the Spanish way in Spain (I cant speak Spanish but do think it wanky of me to use the English pronunciation locally)

For those who think it's pretentious to pronounce it the Spanish way, how would you pronounce 'croissant?'

How it's spelt in English unless you want to sound outrageously pretentious

Same with croissant. They're worlds that have crossed into English. You're not speaking French/Spanish

Shor-ee-soo or shor-ee-sao, but I live in Portugal ;)

Definitely not the way my dear family member says it: chorry-ITSY-oh.

@batmanladybird

Is there an accepted english equivalent though? Eg I know how to pronounce parmigiano in Italian but I would still ask for Parmesan in the super market

No.

Seems to vary from Spanish speaking region to Spanish speaking region.

I say choreeso. I had a boyfriend at uni who used to pronounce it ko-rye-so which was a bit odd!