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 mean really yes, we do pronounce Tu words and many others weirdly. It should be "toona" but it doesn't come naturally to me

Tyoona.

I love that accent. My grandad used to say that.

It's weird when you stop to think about it. I seems to be happy to say it several ways 🤦🏻‍♀️

(T'ooooh NA. - American too harsh. Arni!!)

I think I say tune ahhh mostly.

I say tu-nah. It’s just depends where you’re from/accent.

That's not what I said or what I meant on a thread about how different people /regions say the same word differently.

Of course you know that, but why let that stop you trying to top dog people on a forum thread, hey?

Its chewna, like chewsday innit?

I'm the same as you!

I also pronounce the T in YouTube and get ribbed by everyone as apparently it's You-Choob 😂😂

Choona I worked with a woman who said Toona it sounds weird.

I thought Lidl rhymes with 'middle'.

Tuna is tyoo-na
Choo-na if you're talking fast maybe
Too-na for Americans (and people from Norfolk? - like Bernard Matthews and his 'boo-ti-full' turkeys. 😁)

Tui is too-ee I thought?

I once knew a French man who asked me if i had any smatches, once we worked it out i gathered he got it from being asked "do you want some matches?". Also we went to burger king and he ordered a hooper. I loved both of these very much.

A part of me would like to pronounce ikea properly but I've always felt like I'm acting above by station by doing so!

Hooper?

Hooper = whopper?

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

Yes - in the good old Opal Fruit days of my youth!!

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

They haven't really 'accepted' it - they just know that English-speaking markets will invariably pronounce it that way anyway, so they might as well go with the flow and exploit the fact that it can be used as a pun on the word 'little'.

They would much rather Brits spent millions in 'Liddle' than nothing in 'Leedle'

Can't be certain but I suspect I do when I'm not thinking about how to pronounce it, yes!

This has absolutely blown my tiny mind. I say tyoona and I had no idea people said it with a ch - I'm going to be listening hard every time I'm around some tuna now to see how everyone says it!

Where I live you'd have your tyoona/choona in a sang-witch.

Where I live you'd have your tyoona/choona in a sang-witch.

Ooh that would grate on me. It's san-widge here in the wilds of s.yorks.

T you na. Not ch oo na

Toona

I actually think I say something in between of Tew-na and choona.

On a similar note I was listening to some posh tories on the news earlier (conference related) and was struck how they all said 'issues'.
iss-ee-oos.
Normal people say ishooos right?

I'm Welsh and pronounce it tewna!

People who say "toona" need a sharp slap.

Same! I don't get how the hell Tuna is pronounced Chewna! It's a bloody T! Don't get me started on Chewsday 🤣