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?

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!

Mine too. We're talking about the fish, right? I swear to God I have never, in a rather long life, heard anyone call it anything other than "tune-a", with a very short 'a'. I'm also going to be listening hard next time I'm around any tuna. (I know someone very old and old-fashioned who calls it "tunny fish")

Rude 😂

It's choona for me, and I'm Scottish, not estuary!

I also say choosday, choob, choon, chooberculosis.

@Frazzled2207

I say tyoo-ner
(but not too-ner)

But I remember as a kid, laughing at how posh Tony Hart (anyone remember him, on a kids art show?) pronounced tissue.
He said Tiss-you
Whereas we used to say tish-you
I would say ish-you as well!

I’m not at all posh and I say tyoona and tyuseday and tyunic top, no chh sound in any of them. From Nottingham.

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

No it bloody isn't. Have you really never heard of regional variations, dialects and accents?

@Fizbosshoes I remember Tony Hart and his tiss-yous!
There was an advert for "toilet tiss-you" probably early 80s, that used to make us laugh.

I sat T-eww-na here in SouthWales and Tew-ee too.

My lovely grandmother was from Stoke Lacey, between Hereford and Worcester.
She always said Choosday not Tuesday, I loved that so much.

Tune-a, although since I spent my early years in Essex, I do tend to slip into estuary 'chewna' sometimes.

Too-ee.

My brain says Tyoona, my mouth says Chewna! 😂

In reading this thread it's dawned on me that we're all trying to pronouce the U, which is "ew", as in "music". So we're trying to pronouce the U in some words but not others, like "Lunar" (loonar) or "purpose" (perpose).

I say Too na but say Mew sic.

I asked my DH & Friend who live in the same village as me and they say Tuna the same as me but colleague says Tew na and they live further South.

Me and my Friend realised we say Toon for Tune too.

How can I have been speaking incorrectly all these years?

Two nah. Where the heck k to people pronounce it like the travel company Tui? Or too ee?

It's not two,it's tew.

I say choona. Which isn't the same as chew-na, chew and choo don't rhyme in my accent.
Tune is choon, Tuesday is choosday.

Wtf? But tuna starts with a T! Where are people coming up with ch sound from? That said, I'm south Wales so don't even manage the u...I say Tiwna 🤣

Choona, unless in the US in which case I say Too-na because historically when I’ve asked for choona I’ve been given chicken.

No!!! It's not a ch sound! It's t-y-oona. Ch is a completely different sound.

👍

Changing 'tu' to 'ch' is called yod-coalesence. It's really common and most English speakers do it to some degree, even the poshest.

Other examples - measure, educate, pressure, nature, got you (gotcha), due/dew/jew.

'Tune-uh'

Tyoona

Like this ^

I definitely say chew-na for Tuna and Chewz-day for Tuesday but I say Tui as Too-ee.

I was in a restaurant in the USA once and had a very difficult time with the waiter not understanding my weird accent as I was trying to order a Tuna Steak and he didn't know what I was talking about.

Tyoo-nah

Your grandma didn't live to be 102, by any chance?

The only person I know in Stoke Lacey came from South Wales originally...