How do you pronounce Tuna?

[fairgame84]

I promise I'm not batshit, honestly.

Talking to DM last night and she insists that Tui is pronounced 'chewy' instead of 'tu-ee'.
Now I'm questioning whether we've been brought up pronouncing tuna wrong all our lives. She/we say 'chew-nah' but should it be 'tu-nah' instead?

Tyoona

You are right. Tuna is choona and Tui is Too-ee.

When the kids were young they were playing eye-spy in the kitchen. DS spied something beginning with C . No one got it. It was choona. 🤣

Thank goodness. I was up pondering it all night thinking of all times I've probably said it wrong and people think I'm weird 😂
I don't know why DM insists it's 'chewy', she's seen the adverts, flown with them and her hearing is fine. She's just a bit odd.

😂

t-you-na. Which is virtually the same as choona

Chewna. (lincs). But tui is tuee, its how they say it in the adverts!

According to the adverts, lidl (lidull) is leedl, IKEA is ick-eya and aldi is alldee. These last three are all very weird to me 🤣🤣

Tyou-na and Too-ee

According to the adverts, lidl (lidull) is leedl, IKEA is ick-eya and aldi is alldee. These last three are all very weird to me 🤣🤣

Everyone knows the adverts are wrong on those 3 😉

Ha ha @Fizbosshoes we were playing I spy with my nephew. It had to be something in the room. He said it began with S. Ceiling.

I say choona.

Choo-nah. Only know posh people or Americans to pronounce the T lol.

And TUI = too-ee. (The T stands for Touristik so a hard T)

Choo na

Tu na sounds a bit Hyacinth Bucket

Tuna. Tyou-na.

Tui. Too-ee.

Choo-na. I always thought tu-nah was an American pronunciation.

Tuna: Chew-na.
Tui: Too-ee.

Tui ads say Too-ee

I say choona.

My mum, who has a strong Derbyshire accent, says toona. She also says stoo instead of stew

Choona

Too-ee

Definitely t'-YOO-nuh for me. The same with t'-YOOS-day.

Lidl is indeed pronounced LEE-duhl in German, but once they cottoned on to all of the advertising puns they could make on the word 'little' in the English-speaking market, they seemed to jump ship!

I'm also old enough to remember when NESS-uls became NESS-lay

TYou-na

I also love the heated disagreements as to whether the Dutch painter's name should be pronounced as van-GOFF or van-GO - when, in Dutch, it would be neither of these: more like fun-CHOCH (both times similar to the Scottish 'ch' as in 'loch).

As someone from the nordics, the way English speakers pronounce IKEA really irrationally passes me off. Bf has thankfully learned 😅

Do you remember when Oil of Olay was oil of Ulay? 🤣