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.

Except hatch is correct in some dialects.

Bit rude though to correct your mispronunciation.

No, it hasn't. It's got two er sounds.

You wouldn't say "Yewmbrella" just because there's a letter U there, would you?

The way Professor Alice Roberts (from Digging for Britain) says house really makes me cringe. She says, "Hice" not house. She seems to say hice a lot as well - I feel like throwing the remote at the tele and shouting it's HOUSE not HICE!

It's because idiots like John Torode say Chewmeric. But then, he always used to bang on about people "cooking for Greg and I", so we should all have known better than to copy him.

The people who say ecksetera for et cetera drive me nuts.

And talking of nuts, it’s not all-mond, it’s ah-mond

It's what people in some dialects say, but it is still incorrect.

I know it’s wrong but I learnt from parents who were not educated. I try to remember. Mispronunciation (as mispronounciation) drives me around the bend though

No, it's not incorrect.

I could equally argue that the pronunciation of drawing, where they throw an extra r in after the w, is incorrect, but I recognise there are different dialects and accents in the English language. Claiming otherwise is simply ignorant and/or arrogant.

I acktchually started a thread about celery ACK. John T says this as well. And so does that Marcus Waring.

I cant stand it

No one replied to the thread anyway.

Don't get me started on cardamon vs cardamom...

I think the lesson from this is never to pronounce anything in the same way as John Torode

That drives me fucking insane, there seems to be lots of people that call it ‘ibrufen’ WHY?
To me it’s like calling paracetamol ‘pemol’ just use the correct word and then we all understand each other.

You don't say Wednesday as wed nes day. It's the same sort of thing although I do call it turmeric my DH says tew mer ic

I blame John Torode. He is renowned for his incorrect pronunciation.

It is incorrect. You can look it up, look at the etymology, it's been aitch for centuries.

Some people haven’t had your educational and parental advantages: get over it.

😂

Choo-mer-ic anyone?

Can-dur -it’s got an r at the end.
panda doesn’t.

It’s the same sound in accents that don’t pronounce the “r” at the end of words.

Didn’t see your thread but Yes! Winds me right up!

I am actually crying at this thread 😆 l

How often are you discussing mnemonics?

Mine too.

DH has pompadoms with his curry… after 30 years I’ve given up trying to say anything.

All the people criticising John Torrode do realise he's Australian, right? And Australians have a different accent, pronunciation and even grammar ( eg "Greg and I").