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'

well we call it fadge-ee-tass amongst ourselves, we can pronounce it properly but it is just a family thing, like we say mazzagine for magazine because that is what ds used to call them. However we do pronounce things correctly when out and about/

Urghhh DP says all of these, faJEEtas, tortiLLa, even boloGnaise with a pronounced G!!! Have been trying to train him out of it for years.

However, I have recently gone back to saying choriTSo, tried choriTHo for a while, blank looks, so tried choriSSo, again, blank looks, so I figured I should give up.

Worse still, when I lived in France, everyone said eXpresso and it was even spelt that way on every menu I ever saw there! AND, in my Italian class, when we learnt about food everyone said proSKEWto! [cringe]

It was Getorf's SIL, the Mo-way/M'wet thread.

The trouble with using your own name for things, and I do, is the pitying looks you get from people, who think you don't know. I'm sure some of my colleagues are sniggering right now as I wrote 'sleb twaddle' for celeb gossip.Yes, I do know - oh never mind.

My nan says La-sog-nee, and one of the lovely ladies in playgroup this morning pronounced Briocce (sp?) (bree-osh) Bri-okkee.

FIL says 'seckiterry' for secretary. He seems to think all women who happen to be office based are sekiterries.

Another commonly "mispronounced" Spanish food is "pa-i-ei-a" instead of "Pa-eh-ya".

But the one I really don't understand is "RioKa" wine. Where on earth did that "k" come from? I know it is impossible for most people to do a Spanish "j" but why a "" instead of an "h" sound??

OP how do you say Mexico though because you are being a bit inconsistent if you say Mexico rather than Mehico!

One of the most mis pronounced is Ciabatta

obviously I meant why a "k" instead of an "h" sound...

DP says things how they are written - he is dyslexic and finds reading the word right hard enough, without then processing what culture it is from and then affecting an accent!

I taught him how to say moules frites and now whenever we are out and mussels are on the menu, he beams at the waitress and asks for moules frites, even tho that isn't what's on the menu. Last week in a french restaurant they had moules mariniere on, he kept saying 'moules frites' and the waitress looked confused replying 'moules mariniere?' and he replied 'moules frites' and she said 'moules mariniere'. I watched this moules ping pong for a while until i could take no more and interrupted.

I often have to be the translator between DP and people. Doctors surgeries and cafes with him make me lose the will to live. Both sides just repeating the same words, getting increasingly agitated, neither being able to deviate from their agenda.

What really gets me is when people say Mille feuille wrong. Or they don't quite get the back of the throat phlem sound whilst saying fruits de mer. I mean for gods sake how annoying .

Don't feel poncey about saying choreetho (degree in Spanish and spent much time in Spain) or anything else correctly. The panino thing drives me nuts but there is so little you can do about it!

On the other hand I had no idea about Moët being Dutch, but as the diaresis is rarely (ever?) used in French, probably should have guessed. Oops, just looked on the definitive thread and apparently it's a trema, not a diaresis...

Think I belong in Pedants' Corner.

If we are going to be pendantic here; I feel i should add my observation.

AntsMarching. Fajitas refer the manner in which the meat or poultry is cut (into strips or "fajas" (which is the Spanish for strip) the "ito" is the way Mexicans make things "little" hence "fajitas" being "little strips). You can easily have beef or chicken fajitas. In fact this morning i got my local poulterer (get me!) here in Mexico City to cut up my chicken breast into fajitas. I think Tex-Mex food is a bit different than Mexican food (a slight understatement, but I am being polite). Texans, like their Northern Mexico counterparts (Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Chihuahua, Sonora etc) don't care much for chicken, mainly because historically their chief foodstuff was beef from their cattle ranches. In central and south Mexico chicken or turkey is the most used meat. You might not get chicken fajitas in Texas, but you do get them everywhere else (including the north of Mexico where I used to live, practically on the border with Texas).

And all my Mum's family said sandvidges. And my Granny said Bee-though-ven for the composer. God alone knows why.

I think there's a fine line between pronouncing authentically and being a wanker.

I have a friend who pronounces every dish with a foreign name correctly complete with accent and facial contortion.

It's a bit annoying.

I remember when I was about 14 and on a date at the cinema.
I asked for some Nakoes.
My BF nearly died laughing. I had never had them before and I was trying to be sophisticated.

I say fadge-i-TAH just to annoy the children. It works.

I can't stand the coffee ones, "expresso" and "laaa-tay".

Fajeeta is a lovely name for a girl, why does it upset you?

Pmsl at nakoes!!

My dad is the only person I know who pronounces Lidl correctly ( leedel rather than liddel). I know he's right and yet I can't bring myself to do it.

I'm with foof, know how to pronounce chorizo and paella but feel a complete nobber saying it/them correctly. When I do say it correctly I tend to follow it with my I'm not a twat speech. Have no problem saying fajita and bruschetta correctly though, odd!

Porky you are so right and sometimes you can't win. I had a Spanish friend and an English friend and the Spanish friend had a z in her name so I pronounced it th because that was right. I also have a thing about it because my name was pronounced wrongly in Italy all the time when I lived there. I think it is nice to call people by their names! Every time I said her name to my English friend, she would screw her face up and think I was a right ponce. I ended up calling her "th" name to her face, "z" name to English friend and a shortened nickname without the "z" when they were together. How exhausting.

nevermind that, if I say TISSue or ISSue instead of TISHue or ISHue I get looks.

That said I once walked into a room and asked an exboyfriends family if they wanted Jalepenos (ha-la-pen-yo-s) to looks of derision and laughter from them all and knew it was over.

So what's the correct pronunciation for Mille feuille then, as it's quite probable I'm getting that wrong - meel fwah?