Chorizo

[batmanladybird]

How should it be pronounced?

Those of you who think it's wanky to pronounce it properly (spanish or SA), i don't want to hear from you unless youre doing a proper English pronunciation:

Chor (as in Chorley, Lancs)
Eye
Zoh

And croissant
croys (to rhyme with boys)
ant (the insect)

Just wanted to add that you keep mentioning South America, but in fact the country with the largest Spanish speaking population 110+ million is actually in North America.

@PinkSkiesAtNight

I am not a native Spanish speaker, but I speak Spanish, in Spain, on a daily basis. It sounds completely wrong to me to say it in an anglicised way when speaking in English. How is that wanky? Why would I deliberately choose to pronounce a word wrongly?! I also say Mur-th-ia and pay-ey-ya when speaking English. And I try to say croissant correctly too.

I posted about this a couple of years ago. How do you pronounce Pan au chocolat in England if you are English but speak reasonable French? Do you try and pronounce it properly (and risk being thought pretentious) or anglicise it? I ordered a glass of La Gitana Manzanilla in a Spanish restaurant in Manchester last Saturday night and the barman looked at me blankly until I tried again “in English”

Why do we put a 't' in pizza?
Why not piz-za? Even Italians put a 't' in it.

Cho-ree-tho, with an enhanced Spanish accent, and a cheeky flick of the hair to add emphasis

Cho-ritz-o sends me into a rage

In our house we call it spicy sausage!

Chore-eetzo
Sorry if that's considered unrefined but I also don't say Barthelona or Sevieeya (Seville)
I also don't correct southerners who think my home town of Newcastle has an 'R' in it.
I'm happy to accept whatever pronunciation is acceptable to a persons native tongue

Pronouncing it as if it’s Italian is just wrong though, even in Italian where only a zz has the t sound. It’s a Spanish word, either pronounce it as the Spanish do or as an English word.

How does Newcastle have an R in it?
How’s that pronounced?

@TheQuietChristmas

How does Newcastle have an R in it? How’s that pronounced?

Newcarsle It's newcassle

New-car-stle

Moway for Moet gives me rage though!

@BearSoFair

New-car-stle

It’s Newc assel

Just whilst I am here.

How do you correctly pronounce Prosciutto?

My DC just laid into me for saying prosquito.

Prosh-oo-to.

@Smorgasborb

Moway for Moet gives me rage though!

Me too.

@Hoppinggreen

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

There isn’t a T in pizza either but we still pronounce it as if there is one.

The thing is, if you pronounce it “chor-its-o”, everyone still knows what you mean.

No one’s going to say “I was wondering if you meant chor-eeth-o but it couldn’t possibly be that, could it? I wonder what it is that you’re talking about?”

@DroopyClematis

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

I've been called all manner of things in the past for not mispronouncing anything to the best of my knowledge.

I usually find that if I listen carefully to the pronunciation of any culinary term on Masterchef and then make sure I never, ever, say it like them, I'm likely to be right.

@Smorgasborb

Chore-eetzo Sorry if that's considered unrefined but I also don't say Barthelona or Sevieeya (Seville) I also don't correct southerners who think my home town of Newcastle has an 'R' in it. I'm happy to accept whatever pronunciation is acceptable to a persons native tongue

Guilty, sorry northerners! I saw Newcarstle. Also barth and grarse. Us southerners like our additional 'r's! It would feel really wrong to say bath and grass here!

I say chor-eez-o which is also incorrect!

Oh, that reminds me of one day where FIL swung into defending me. He heard me getting arsey comments in a pub from some down-from-that-there-London-folk and convinced them that they would be at risk of attack from the locals if they kept on using a London accent to ask for anything as 'you've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the West, you know...'

As he was a retired lawyer, he was a remarkably personable and persuasive man. He spoke in the broadest Dartmoor accent he could muster and they were very grateful for the advice about fitting in.

How we kept a straight face when he taught them with repetition to always say Ja-lap-pen-oz, nobody knows.

I don’t pronounce pizza with a T in it

"Just" a sausage?! How very dare you.

I say ChoREEtho. I speak Spanish

@Hoppinggreen

I don’t pronounce pizza with a T in it

What do you say then? For most of us it’s “peet-za”. Not “pizz-uh”

@Hoppinggreen I say Pan-o-shok-o-lah for pain au chocolat in English. Unless I am in Spain and then I call it a Napolitana!

I've been there with them not understanding the 'correct' way. It is annoying. Especially as it may or may not be wanky but it is still understandable.

A Spanish taxi driver refused to understand my friend asking to go to Avenida Ar-jen-tina, a major road where I am, until I said Avenida Ar-hgen-tina. I can't write that sound phonetically!