How do you pronounce....

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Latte?

Do you say LAT-tay? Or LAR-tay?

Just curious.

@TTPD

Oopsie you missed the humour there.

I wish I'd put LIGHT-HEARTED at the end of that post. It would have been very obvious in a face to face conversation, but I suppose it's not online.

<wanders off to bang head repeatedly against wall>

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g

There's no R in it and I also understand neither of the vowels to be long, so I say La-tay (the tay is almost close to how German folk say Tee).

La Tay

@SiobhanSharpe now that's got me really confused as to me pusta would rhyme with Worcester? Maybe different elsewhere? I'm interested in regional variations, like when you get children's rhyming stories that don't work everywhere.

La-Tay

Lat-ay cos I am from up north!

Very confused by the people saying the Italian 'a' in latte is different from the English 'a' in cat. On the video someone linked to it sounds pretty damn similar to me, which was what I had thought from the couple of years I spent in Italy in my 20s. To me, if using the 'la- tay' pronunciation, it's the second syllable that differs most from Italian as the sound there is between the way we sa it in English and a schwa - short 'u'. I can remember being teased by Italians and Spanish speakers who would exaggeratedly mock the 'ayyy' sound they associated with English.

Edinburgh here with Kent roots - lah-tay. I don’t have a strong Scottish accent so don’t pronounce it as latty and have been away from the SE long enough to know that random r’s in words sound odd!

Lat-ay

I guessed that it was, but I couldn't let it go unchecked after the recent £100 note thread

Lah teh

Ooh, off to advanced search ...

P.S Don't come to Italy and order a Latte, you'll get a glass of Milk!!

It's amazing how often words or phrases are nicked borrowed wholesale from other languages and then used to mean nothing like they actually mean.

French people would never call a bathroom attached to a bedroom an 'en-suite'.

However, I recall seeing northern French restaurants/cafes (in places where a lot of British tourists end up) advertising 'Welshes', by which I think they meant Welsh rarebit/fancy cheese on toast.

The Germans do it with English, too: my favourites are Oldtimer (meaning a veteran car, not an elderly person); and Dressman (meaning a male model, not... anything else)!

This one:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5052061-aibu-for-paying-child-caused-damage-out-of-wedding-gift-money?page=1

It kind of got a bit side-tracked - it wasn't meant to be about £100 notes at all!

LATtay. English doesn’t have the same ability as Italian to emphasise double consonants, so people try and compensate by elongating the vowel sound instead- that’s where the LAH comes from. But it’s not correct.