how do you pronounce tortoise

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(Please, no posts about vowel sounds and rhotic accents and the rest of it which has been hashed over so many times).

I was listening to a podcast from a company called Tortoise Media. The host - who is from London - says "tor-tuss". I am Scottish and would never in a million years say it that way, it's tor-toys to rhyme with turquoise. Is this a regional thing? And if other people are saying "tor-tuss" why is the colour not tur-qwuss?

I’m NW England and both ways sound right to me 🤣

I’m from the north east but have lived all over. Both sound fine to me, couldn’t pick one.

Would agree with this. I am originally from the east of Scotland and now living in the west - I have heard both slightly different oys oice endings. Just not "tortuss".

tor-tuss

Turquoise is a different word, it's like asking why we say though, thou, thorough, and rough differently

Midlands. Tor-toice. Not taking the piss! 😉

I am from the South West and normally say "tor - tuss", EXCEPT when I'm teaching and it appears on a spelling test I'm administering, in which case I say "Tort - OI - se" very markedly in the hope that children will remember it's spelt with an "oi"!

This

Tor-tuss here.

Although we actually call all tortoises/turtles "durdles" because that's what DS called them when he was little and it stuck!

Tortuss. Originally from East Anglia.

Tor-tuss based in Yorkshire

Tor-tuss, Cambridgeshire

Tortoys, Scotland.

Tor tuss

West Midlands = Tor- tuss. The plural of Tor-tuss = Tor-tuss-is

Tortuss, but honestly, it's a word I avoid!

Why?

DH takes the piss out of me because I say tur-tuss!

I'm Irish and say tor-toice not that I have cause to say it often.
I pronounce turquoise as turk- whice.

To be fair it's not something I have need to say regularly either!

Tor-Tuss.

Grew up abroad but have lived in south east 21yrs.

South Wales. Tortoise, rhyming with voice

Tor tuss.

My incredibly posh MIL used to have one and said “Tor - toisse!” With the gap for the hyphen.

Always in a high pitched, unhinged voice that really got to me. With the emphasis on the “toisse” to rhyme with voice.

tortuss- east midlands

I lack confidence with the word, but the need for it is rare to completely absent in my life.

I agree about rhymes in children's books. My children loved the Julia Donaldson books when they were younger - some tricky ones there for an Irish accent.