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'

Round here they have jerlapinose on their fajeetahs and tort-illas (rhymed with vanilla). With San Migwell beer. In Madge-orca.

Wouldn't Möet et Chandon be pronounced Mo-et anyway, since it is followed by a vowel and therefore even in French it would be Mo-et? I am an utter snobbish wanker, aren't I?

Never even thought of the panini/panino one. I would feel a bit precious asking for a panino although if I'd a couple of glasses of Möet in me, I'm sure I'd be grand

Your making me want one for my tea

There was a long Möet thread once. I blame Freddie Mercury.

MrsTerryPratchett it wouldn't actually because Möet is a proper noun and in French proper nouns don't follow that rule.

I thought claret was pronounced clar-ay until recently

Really? Hooray, I'm not as sad as I thought.

What about tagine?
Not saying how I pronounce it in case I'm wrong.

Definitive Moet thread. It's because it's Dutch

Tagine rhymes with vagine. HTH.

My mum has 'lasang'. Drives me insane! I think she says it on purpose now though.

I have honestly never heard anyone pronounce it fajeetah.

But now I really want one. A CHICKEN fajita, no less!

Wow MardyBra that ran for 17 pages. I won't peek in case I get retrospectively annoyed

When we were kids I remember my brother correcting my other brother on the way he said spaghetti, Brother A says 'we are having bsketti for tea' to which Brother B replies 'Its not bsketti its psketti p p psketti'.

It was so funny!

My friend says fajeeta. She also says Obtober and Demin.

I just about love her all the same, although she's very much on thin ice.

Oh foofy I so agree with you about the chorizo thing, and yet I get all stabby over 'fajeeta'. I can't reconcile it. It makes no sense.

I also want to kill people who say nuggat when they mean nougat (noogar) and orber-jean for aubergine (ober-zsheen)

my MIL can't say the word crisps. She sort of says crsssssss.

Thank you Mardy, I was right, waitresss was wrong.
I do say nugget for nougat though, 'twas what my parents called it.

My Dad says sanGwich for sandwich. He definitely does it on purpose now. This is the man with the panino daughter. Intergenerational social mobility is a terrible thing.

FIL likes a drop of MerLOTT.

It's funny. I have told him how it shouldbe pronounced but he doesn't care - and thinks we are stuck up.

Hey ho....

All I can add is:

The wa'er
In Madgorca
Don't taste like
What it orter

And that you can't win - I say Choriso (more or less) and Andalucía with the accent on the i automatically and am aware it makes me sound poncey but lived in south of Spain for too long to not

the only one that REALLY annoys me though is Alm ea ria (middle to rhyme with 'dear') - is it really that hard to say Almería properly (no doubt will have now fucked up accents on keyboard, but YKWIM)

I have a BIL who says "pacifically" instead of "specifically". He once used it ten times in the same conversation (yes - I counted!) and it actually gave me a mild stress headache!

I felt very proud today when I ordered a Kes-a-dee-ya rather than a Kwesadilla (Quesadilla) - please someone tell me I'm right. I'm tryyyyying!

I do say fajita and tortilla properly (I hope) but yy to feeling a bit poncey saying choreetho.

I get more worked up about ENGLISH words that ENGLISH people can't say properly though tbh. Such as secuhtary (it's seCREtary) and pacific (specific ffs!).