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.

And vitamin…

I originally knew it as Brufen, and had it on prescription under that name.

Anyway, what's worse is that DH pronounces paracetamol as 'parrots ate em all'.

Google Harry Hill Delia Smith humous ...

I remember years ago being dumbfounded when a dear man I worked with said he loved eating kwish.

What did he mean??
Tbh to pp's MIL those are all foreign language words so it's more understandable to make an error and try to pronounce as they are and many people did not have those foods growing up. Panini is a bugbear of mine (as in for one) and the sh pronuncing of bruschetta but I've learnt to accept there will be anglicised of these things.
In Ireland Haitch is correct and its what it's taught in school, so not at all like fing or fink.

i think kwish may be quiche?

Quiche of course

My mum says kwinch

She struggles to pronounce a lot of words. We always know what she means though.

Or chimbley.

Oh yes 😆
I thought kiwis mixed up.

Quiche

That’s American though? I wouldn’t trust anyone who can’t pronounce carAmel correctly. I always say tuRmeric. British pronounciation on google is tuRmeric.

Don't get started on Chorizo 😂 or horritho as theyre now saying.

Hyundi!

Microwarvay. Good old Nigella.

Well of course I’m being pedantic, but it does annoy me that the plural “panini” has become a singular noun in English. How it ever made its way on to English menus is the question. “Expresso” is another mash-up of a nice Italian word.

Expresso is what the French use - Portuguese too I think? Just a localisation of the word. It's incorrect in English.

The pronunciation of haitch is taught in Irish schools. Children saying aitch by mistake would be corrected.

It’s the standard pronunciation here. Words evolve differently depending on location and there is more than one form of standard English.

I suspect it's because they once read the word without looking closely enough at it to see that R beside the M, and ran with their mistake ever after.

Learners of English are routinely taught Haitch; sorry to burst that bubble.

One of my DDs encountered a lot of Chinese students in university (in the US) who pronounced it 'haitch'. My DD was curious and asked because she had heard me use the word Haitch, and wondered if they had learned English from Irish ESL teachers. No, they had been taught by Australians. A little digging by DD yielded the information that the influence of RC schools and their Irish RC teachers in Australia means that Haitch is extremely widespread there, with Aitch regarded as a Pommie thing.

As an aside, I'm surprised there isn't widespread revulsion at Aitch here on MN - it is after all the standard American pronunciation of the name of the letter.

It’s funny how people think their own way is the only correct one.

I came across a poster on MN once who was quite astounded that Scottish and Irish children weren’t taught to say ‘ar’ and ‘er’ with a non-rhotic accent in phonics classes in school. She had assumed they were taught the same sounds as her English children, even though r is (generally) pronounced in that position in Scotland and Ireland.