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?

I say Tyoona (South London) but my friend said everyone pronounces it choona nowadays and tyoona sounds old fashioned

This last year I've realised that my hometown also mangles days of the week.

Mundee, chewsdee, wensdee, thursdee (or rather fursdee), fridee, satdee and sundee.

It's only when I travel away from my hometown that I realise how weird it is/sounds. When there it just sounds normal to me. 🤣🤣

@HashtagShitShop
I'm from s.yorks and we have our own way with words which is totally normal to us. DH is not English and it's only since he's been here that I realise how odd we sound when he tries to copy how I speak.

I'm American and I call it "too-na"

I'm not too far away from you, it must be similar 🤣 my sister in law always says she can tell when my brother has come home because he's louder and "lazier" on his words 🤣

Tyoo-na, Too-ee, Liddel, Al-di, Eye-kia...if I say IKEA like the advert I can't help but say 'the wonderful everyday' and a good 5mins after imitating a Swedish accent 😂

I've pronounced it Too-na since I first watched Lilo and Stitch aged about 7😂

I wanted to say that it's tyoona. But now I have said it out loud a few times I suspect I actually say ch'na, with at most a schwa instead of the oo sound. A very weak form!

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

I remember that!

My lovely Mum always used it.

So do I-it's Olaz where I am😀

choo nuh

i think “choona” would be classed as Estuary pronunciation - like travelling on the “choob”.

All I can hear is Arnold Schwarzenegger saying 'Tooo-na'!

Choo-nahh

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

So basically, you’re calling the German and Swedish languages weird. How very enlightened of you.

and @fairgame84 you have been pronouncing “tuna” incorrectly. It’s tyoonah. No “ch” sound anywhere.

Oh yeah and TUI is too-wee

What?! Are you sure that's how you're pronouncing it?

As for IKEA - I realise the correct pronunciation is ick-ee-a but if I said it like that I'd be the only person I've ever met to do so and would feel like a twat. So it's eye-key-ah.

Lidl they seem to have accept themselves it rhymes with middle "middle of Lidl"

choona - also how I write it on my shopping list

I used to live in Ducie Street ... but almost no-one ever said 'dyoo-si' but rather sounded like Juicy Street. I think tuna is the same kind of word.

I love it when people get all dictatorial about correct pronunciation. I just imagine them a few hundred years ago getting really irate at people pronouncing “knight” as “nite” and insisting that you have to carry on saying “k’nig’t” just like it is spelled.

I just choked laughing - that is brilliant

Choona.

Tyoonah

Chewna
Chube
Chewsday
Chree (if I try and day it "tree" I just like I'm doing a bad Irish impersonation"

But tui is tooey

Choona