Why do people pronounce turmeric as tewmeric?

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It's got an 'r' in it. It's tur-mur-ic.

So annoying.

The Cambridge dictionary disagrees with you on the 'no standard pronunciation' thing.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/turmeric

Chat GTP says TUR is American and TUE is British RP pronunciation.

or 'chimley'

I say I -bru-profen, and I annoy myself no end! I just can’t stop!

I have started just saying Nurofen, everyone knows what I mean 😂

Spelling isn't always a reliable guide to pronunciation. 'Cough' has got a 'g' in it. 'Women' has an 'o' and an 'e' but we say 'wimin'.

I'll go with the Cambridge Dictionary.

And as for choritzo 😤

Thank you OP. Thank You, THANK YOU. I thought I was alone in this, and so kept quiet. But, despite being generally laid back, this irritates the shit out of me.
Tbh, it’s just enough to know I’m not alone. 😊🤣

It really wasn't. In the 80s you were just surrounded by people who got it wrong.

There are too many of these to mention. I mean, “a panini”, for starters. “I’ll have a panini and an expresso please.”

A woman I work with calls the pub chain “Witherspoons” no matter how many times the rest of us point out it’s called Wetherspoons.

Sorry, what? Candour is nothing like panda. Well, the an rhymes but that also rhymes with the an in can. The da in panda doesn't rhyme with the dou in candour. Plus there is an r at the end of candour. It's pronounced can-dur.

I wouldn't trust AI to be honest. It told me the other day that Anne Frank is the most famous Holocaust survivor.

Good to know I’m not alone OP.

Brufen is a brand name of it, so a bit of a mash-up I'm guessing.

And Merriam Webster disagrees with that 🤷‍♀️

www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/turmeric?utm_campaign=sd&utm_medium=serp&utm_source=jsonld

That is how it's pronounced though.

🎯 100% with you OP. I bet the TEW-meric brigade pronounce nuclear as ‘NUCULAR’ too.
If we’re really getting into it, there are swathes of people who use the word ‘appraise’ when they mean ‘apprise’.
‘He appraised his line manager of the situation.’
NO HE DID NOT. •huffs in corporate•

That reminds me of a radio phone in from years back where they were discussing people saying 'chimley' instead of 'chimney'.
Someone rang in and said people who pronounce it wrong are a "bunch of walkers" 😂

They have an r in the UK pronunciation too though. Although it is much softer than the US version.

Merriam-Webster, that peerless Massachusetts guardian of the King’s English since 1843 😄

Oh god it annoys the hell out of me as well. I thought I was the only one.

I say chewmerick and always have.

And will continue to.

Depends on your accent. Candour and panda rhyme in my accent (southern English)

Chew meric. Drives me nuts, where is chew in turmeric. Think it was Matt Tebbut who use to pronounce it like that, maybe one of the Indian chefs has put him right. It annoys me because I used to teach Indian cookery and couldn't understand why people even thought it was pronounced like that.