To want to poke people in the eye when they say 'FAJEETAH'

[AngelWreakinHavoc]

This is one of those daft things that really annoys me . Why can so many people not pronounce the word fajita correctly!

Over the last 2 weeks 3 people have said this and it is adult people surely if my 6 yr old can say it then the rest of the world can? or aibu?

The final straw was today in the supermarket when the woman serving said 'Ohh You are having FAJEETAHS for tea, i just wanted to scream ITS FAHEETAH!!!!!

Obviously I didnt and politely replies 'yes I am'

My dad calls them Fat Ritas

Bonsoir
Not at all the only other Language I speak apart from English is Geordie. I know I pronouce curry correctly though :)

I really cannot bring myself to give a fuck how anyone prnouces this word. I certainly wouldn't assume they were an oik for saying it "wrong"

Well I think yabu. It's a word that has now been adopted by the English language so it should be pronounced the 'english' way. Do you say Madrid like the Spanish? Or Paris like the French?

We jokingly call them fangitas and I've been known to forget that isn't their actual name

Reminiscent of the time I was chatting to someone from my antenatal group when our babies were weaning and used DH's preferred term for Petit Filous - pettits filloose. She looked at me with horror and pity she was a snooty one anyway and I at least had the wit not to try and backtrack!

My boyfriend and I thought that gnocchi was pronounced GE-NOTCH-EE up until about two years ago. We were corrected by a waiter.

Florabee the 'should of' and 'should have' thing drives me nuts! I usually circle it on students' work in red pen with PET HATE!! written next to it. They are learning not to do it. Gradually.

MardyBra That is just great!

I blame all this synthetic phonics.

then there is the potato, tomato, schedule...

then again...I am Canadian, eh...?

Can I put in a vote for one panino, two panini. It makes my ears itch when people ask for effectively, one sandwiches. If you can't say it properly, it is OK to just have a sandwich. Oh, and chai tea (so tea tea then)

My BIL talks about KYA - BATTA italian bread.

But MrsTP - asking for a panino is well poncey isn't it?

Mardy, yep, so I might ask for a ham roll instead. If you are going to be poncey (pannini) at least be properly poncey (panino).

Fuck, I fucking misspelt fucking panino. I am just going to crawl into my pendant's burrow and cry.

Aaaargh, panini.

Yes MrsTP, the danger of doing all this authentic pronounciation is that there is a danger of sounding like an utter snobbish wanker a bit foolish

i have never heard this word said wrong - possibly op you are talking and mixing with the wrong people

Does it matter?

Meh, it's spelled fa-ji-ta, so

e-X-spresso OTOH gives me the rage. JUST. READ. THE. FUCKING. WORD.

at MrsTP

The one that really bugs me is Möet et Chandon.

It's not Moay, it's M'wet.

Granted this isn't an argument I have with people everyday, wouldn't that be bloody lovely , but when I do pronounce it, correctly, people look all embarassed for as if I'm some sort of cretin who can't pronounce French words. It's not French, Mr Möet was Dutch.

M'wet, M'wet, M'wet.

Don't worry, I get corrected all the time.

"A cheese panino, please"
"Panini?"
"Um, OK"

And presumably an eXpresso to go with it.

TBF, it's not entirely poncetastic in my case. I lived in Italy and spoke Italian every day not English so it just sounds annoying rather than common. When I got back was when the whole esspresso, gelato, panini thing started. I couldn't understand why people couldn't just use the perfectly acceptable English words instead of mispronouncing the Italian ones. I understand I am a whiny know it all.

Squoosh there was a whole loooooooong thread on just that point a while back :o