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.

So are you pronouncing the ou in candour as a or are you pronouncing the a in all the others as uh?

Good example, a soft R being added.
Like Peppa, always said as Pepper (soft R)

Where I live, we say “Pep-Ah”
And we have a hard R, it never gets added.

Haitch is a hard H where I come from.
It’s very much a part of the accent.

The latter.

FFS. Some people are very ignorant about regional variation, dialect and accent.
Dialects are just as regular and rule-governed as “standard” English, and just as “correct”. Dialect doesn’t mean “Saying or pronouncing something wrongly.”

Do you really think that all Scots, say, are saying most things “wrong”? Do you really think everyone should be speaking with an RP/SE English accent? That would be pretty hideous.

And it’s TURmeric!

I honestly don't understand how you're pronouncing it. Here's the Cambridge dictionary audio

dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/candour

Very often in NHS. N haitch S is just so wrong!

Yes, but not everyone speaks like you. I would say can-dur and pan-dah as I am Scottish. Neither of us is incorrect.

Thanks. I was really struggling to "hear" it in my mind.

Unless you're Irish in NI. In which case it has traditionally been used as shibboleth to determine who to discriminate against.

@Babyswearing
I don’t get the Quorm problem here.

And in one example from my friend's dad being stopped at gun point and told to spell the name of the town written on his van, which contained the letter h, quite literally a matter of life and death.

A friend had a similar incident where he was detained at a checkpoint because he refused to say he was going to Londonderry rather than Derry.

Oh god I've heard people say it like that too.
And I've heard it pronounced 'ibrufen'
😂

Ha I'd forgotten about NHS (not from the UK). Makes sense.

No, Southern England. Yeah, aware of the Irish pronunciation, it's become more common now to do it the Irish way.

And what about humous? DH pronounces it hommos. He also says tewmeric.

Living in South East, not Ireland, the person who corrected me also lives and had same accent.

I knew someone who called it canine pepper. Another person said kyabatti instead of ciabatta. That was 30 years ago and it still makes me smile.

Who taught you to say it like that?

So sounds like he's either trying out for an Irish passport, is Irish but grew up in England so doesn't have an Irish accent or is just wrong for his dialect.

Just watched Jamie Oliver's Feast for a Fiver and he is at it now - bloody chew- meric. Must have been him that started the TV chef pronunciation.

He's AUSTRALIAN, this is how we pronounce turmeric (and pasta and celeriac and any number of words that have come up on this thread) in Australia!

Bugger off with your dialect policing, everyone 😆!! Borderline racist the way you're all sneering at the Australian accent, I'd like to see you do it to other colonial English accents, Indian English for example?! Want to sneer at the way they pronounce some English words? Didn't think so...

Everyone in Australia taught me how to say it as tewmeric. It's how we say it in Australia (where John Torode is from).

Last I checked we are allowed to have national dialects!

John Torrode is Australian and that's how those words are pronounced here 😊

It's done regularly with Irish ones too.