how do you pronounce tortoise

[GenieGenealogy]

(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?

Tortuss

Tortus shell

Same

I didn't say it "had" to be. I said that's why the line from Alice works. And Charles Dodgson was from Cheshire and apparently pronounced it that way, unless he just did in that instance, for the purpose of making a joke. I pronounce it tortuss, and I'm from London.

Tortuss and Tortus- shell.

I'm now wandering around the house saying Tortoise to myself over and over again................... what have you done to me??!!!

(Tor-toyce) 😅

Me too!

Tor-toys here.

Also Scottish, also say tor-toys.

Well I say tor-tuss. Everybody I know does. But I've often wondered why...
Just ease I suppose...

@GenieGenealogy I have no choice but to say tortoise! scottish

Tor-toys. I'm Scottish and don't think I've ever heard anyone there saying tohtuss unless they're English maybe?

OED says tortəss or tortoyss for UK pronunciation. Americans use the first of these but roll the R and turn the second T to a D.

Me: Lancashire, tortəss.

Tor-tuss. Grew up in the SE with parents from the NE and NW. I've heard tor-toyss but don't think it's particularly regional.

I have 2 torts and they are pronounced tortoises lol 1 singular is a tort-toys for sure lol! Ps east coast Scotland lol

Tor-toize and por-poize. Grew up in Yorkshire, never heard the tor-tuss version until university.

Tortoise.

Same as porpoise.

I would never pronounce the latter as por-puss, so tortoise is not tor-tuss.

Taught us

Tor-tuss and por-puss. South east 🙂

Tortuss. NW England. But I distinctly remember a teacher that used to say “ToyToyce” and it was like nails down a blackboard.

Tortuss.
I also say prooven not proh-ven.
South mids.

Tor toys in posh company
tor tus otherwise
Northern English background

Tor-toys. Tor-tuss always sounds so prim to me 😆

Saying ‘to rhyme with’, eg ‘with turquoise’ never works as people always pronounce things differently to each other and therefore have different reference points. Eg some people actually say turquoise ‘Turk-wahz’ 😲 so to rhyme with, tortoise would be ‘Tort-wahz’ 😲 which I doubt anyone says.

TorTuss for sure. The other pronunciation would sound very odd to me!

Definitely not. The North East says tor-tuss.