to pronounce the champagne Moet mow-ett as opposed to Mow-ay and have a ridiculously stupid mini-row about it?

[GetOrf]

Disclaimer - I am not a poncetastic twat. Get that in before you lot accuse me.

At MILs last night, couple of SILs there. My MIL loves champagne, it was a distinct luxury when she was younger and I don't think she bought a bottle until she was in her 40s. Now she is making up for lost time and I always buy her a decent bottle for her birthdays, mothers day etc.

We were talking about different brands, and she was remembering the different ones she has tried, I said that a cheapish one which I had bought from Sainsbos (Charles something) was rated in the Sunday Times as being better than the more recognised brands such as Moet etc.

At which point my SIL laughed scoffingly and said 'I would have thought you would have known that the French don't5 pronounce the t on the end of the word, it is pronounce Mow-AY' (said in full on condescending terms).

I said fuck off dicksplash 'no it is pronounced Mo-ETT, theword is Dutch anyway'

She carried on 'no it's not, champagne is French not dutch, next you will be saying Edam comes from Wales'

She really got on my tits.

skyatnight - not absolutely anything in a French way, though, just those names of places which have previously been German. I used to live across the border from the Alsace/Elsass, so it was an ishoo round there.

awaiting permission..

So, if you want two lovely icecream chocolate confections, do you ask for Magnums, or Magna?

Uberaffengeil (that one's from childhood)...but then we're back to square one....

oh permission to dig up Nietzsche and shoot him -

Stleger, that is class!! I so want to have a scampo for my first course, and some Magna for pudding...

God I am sad sad sad

I think if you mumble into your menu, it will be right either way
(save the egg till last - yum)

You should try living in Scotland (and I speak as a Scot). My pet hates: "beedge" instead of beige, yOghurt with a long O sound and clemAYtis instead of CLEMatis.

Does anyone else remember adults always calling pizza "pizza pie"?

you'lll need lots of magna if you only have one scampo slf

permission granted baggy

über Affengeil

Isn't 'geil' a little schoolboyish? Not nearly as irritating as uber, but anyways it wouldn't sound right without the proper endings. 'That's geil!' just about works, though.
Where's my permission to assassinate the uber-annoying importer?

Lots of yOghurt people in Ireland, north and south... they set my teeth on edge. (I am Irish, this isn't a racist thing).

THANKS nickel!
:-)

yup. That was the coolest thing around in 1993. Why can't i get my PC to do umlauts. How outrageous.

and thanks to fester, too :-)

oh no this thread has gone out of control, and it is the first and only thread about ME!

I AM Moet (mysterious emoticon).

I know how to pronounce it.

You are all WRONG!

no worries bagmeister

sticky, do you mean you wouldn't go there because it's a pronunciation minefield, or because the coffee is crap? I think the latter personally

Don't you mean the latte?

Veg-er-tables. Who here says it that way? Spank yourself hard.

, LieIns.

PS I like the name!

My brother says v'jar-t'bles in a mildly annoying joky sort of way...

It's more than one syllable?!

I thought the full word was veg!

I've got 'horny monkeys, horny monkeys' going round in my head in a schoolboyish (circa 1993) way, to the tune of '3rd and Bird'. Funny what Mumsnet can do to you.

A nice Chardonnay (or is it Chardonnet?)
Oh, dahling, I only drink Peeno Greezh-e-o / Greigeio / Graygio / Grigotte with my vegitibbles. (c. 1996)

Whoops, losing the plot, must eat before I kill the thre