How do you pronounce 'broccoli'?

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I (and pretty much everyone I've met) say 'broccol-ee'

PILs say 'broccol-eye'. I think my grandaprents used to as well.

Who is actually right? Is it an age thing?

Ah, then I wonder if it's a bit of a Hyacinth Bucket type thing

In Wales I've heard both Pree-mark and Pr-I-mark (I say Pree-mark).

Anyway, how TF did someone manage to get deleted on a thread about broccoli?

Primark themselves say it’s Pr-eye-mark!

Spelled here at the local market as ‘brokley’ but I think they might be having a laugh.

They may have been my parents.

But they would have followed up by offering you one tiny floret and asking if you'd like a broccolus.

Three distinct syllables - the last ending in an ee sound.

@stuntbubbles they're quite simply wrong.

Extremely unreasonable but for him it's one of many words he says wrong. One day I'm going to flip!

Brockle-trees.

Started by a young dc and it’s stuck.

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My proud Londoner MIL says broccolye but then she says bargayne and mountayne, God love her.

We're not far from Ardingly which is pronounced Ardinglye. I can't bear it!

That's the variant which we pronounce 'fractal veg'.
'Normal' broccoli is calabrese, I suppose, if you want to be precise?

Little trees is much easier

brock-o-lee

EE ending.

The only person I know who says broccol-eye is my grandad and he's 95.

No, don't be silly. A microwave is a poptyping.

Worked for Birdseye in Australia (Victoria) and they definitely pronounced it broco-lye.

Brocco(lay) Scottish and I've never heard it pronounced any other way

oooh @StCharlotte my MIL says moun-tayne as well! I thought it was just her

Throwing a cat among the pigeons, when I was younger I used to say bruCOLly (but I'm pretty sure my sisters used to tell me not to).

My mil says broccol eye. Really gets on my nerves. I set broccolee and so does everyone else I know.

Am I the only one who says brockley then ie as two syllables and not three.

Ok so I've RTFT now and I'm not the only one who drops the 'o' in the middle.

"I don’t think the Irish agree with the people on the island of Great Britain on the pronunciation of primark."

I thought it was called Pennies over there. It can be Pree-mark in GB too.

That's the sort of thing I say to my children for the sole purpose of securing a 🙄🙄🙄

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And, fwiw, I'm West Mids and have only ever heard 'ee'. Never heard anyone say 'eye'.

Made me laugh far harder than it should.

But yes. Broc-o-Lee.

When it comes to pruning time, cle-mantis is about right.