Have I been saying this word wrong my whole life?!

[InstrumentsofTorture]

Just heard the word "romanticised" pronounced with a hard c. Is that how it's said?!

It’s hooping cough

What about the shop Cos? Is it coss or coz? I don't say it out loud very often but am always conscious I mumble both pronunciations.

I’m embarrassed to say I didn’t know there were two spellings! It’s not a word I use frequently but I will be embracing the British spelling when I do - thank you 😅

I assumed it was pronounced Coz like Cos lettuce.

It's whooping cough

@GetWhatYouWant , Cos lettuce is Koss not Coz.

Wow is it!! Spent my whole life calling it Coz, you live and learn!

For a long time I thought ‘awry’ was pronounced ‘or-ree.’ 🙈

Burberry was from Basingstoke. I wouldn’t say they're that fussy about diction round here...

Awkward!

I pronounce it like this too.

I meant it’s pronounced hooping, but yes of course it’s spelled whooping.

@Durdledore Yes I understood what you meant

But it's pronounced whooping cough. Not hooping cough. The pronunciation is different

@Durdledore , you sort of say the w too.

@GetWhatYouWant Cos lettuce is named after the island

@shielder , that's what it says in the link. Buh-buh-ry.

@EBearhug , there are some nice areas around Basingrad

@KirstenBlest @Februaryfeels

The Cambridge dictionary agrees with me:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/whooping-cough

So it does. How interesting

I've only ever heard the wh pronounced wh.

I'm from the north and have never dropped an aitch in my life unless being ironic, the way you speak isn't only dictated by geography

@Durdledore , clicked on the link and it says Kooping Koff .

The 'wh' sound doesn't have an IPA symbol but it's like when someone Scottish says 'when', 'white', 'why', 'where'...

You either hear it or you don't. I do.

But the Scottish WH in "where" is not the same sound as whooping which is pronounced "hooping" as in cough

Is pronounced "wooping" (Scottish wh?) when "whooping for joy"

@KirstenBlest

As in ginger.
I used this word only yesterday when posting on family WhatsApp a photo of my ‘harbinger of spring’ - an ancient blackthorn tree in the local park that evidently fell down at some point, but re-rooted itself via more than one fallen branch.

Here it is - it’s just one original tree.

@EBearhug , there are some nice areas around Basingrad

I know, I've been here decades.

Anyway, I reckon Thomas Burberry in the 1860s would have had a more rural Hampshire accent than that influenced by London and 1960s new town. (My own is mostly Dorset.)

I do too

Wh is different from w and h.

All of those are the x (or better c-s).

I'm not a linguist and don't know is the proper expression but there is a expiration on wh

And I do say white, when and whooping cough the same