to point out that people who say "choritso" for chorizo...

[MardyBra]

... are assigning an Italian pronunciation to a Spanish word?

You don't need to do a Manuel-style "choreeeeetho" thing. Chorizo with a z sound is fine by me if you prefer, as it's a valid in many dialects.

I like to say chur-ritz-o because it sounds twatish.
I also say quo-sont again sounds twatty, but if have to liven up my supermarket shop with a 4mth old somehow, plus he giggles when I say things twatty

Can somebody tell me how prezzo should be pronounced? My sis and I cannot agree!

If all I have to worry about is being judged by a psued on my pronunciation of a type of sausage I am fine with that!

LOL

I hope that people aren't doing this to be judgy. Language is fun and interesting. And once you've learned a language you can't unlearn it. So if I know how to pronounce something in French I am bound to notice if someone pronounces it weirdly.

Judgy- not so much. There are still a lot of languages I can't speak. In fact, I can only speak European ones. No Arabic, no Chinese, no Hindi- there must be shedloads of things I say wrong.

prezzo - pretzo like pizza (pitza) or mezzanine (metzaneen)

And why did the BBC always call Pinochet Pinoshay?

I live in Florida where there are many Spanish speakers and Spanish surnames. Spanish is the second language most people learn in school. Nearly everyone makes an effort to pronounce Spanish words properly (as in cho-REE-so), except interestingly, the name of the state.

I knew it! Thanks Burberry!

Wow. There's two choritso threads now. Hot topic or what.

Burberry -

Who tf pronounces mezzanine "metzanine"?!

I do, Angeltulips. You gotta problem with that?

And it's HoeGHaaaarder for Hoegaarden. You gather together a lot of phlegm to pronounce the g in the back of your throat and don't pronounce the N. Of course if you did that in a British pub, the barman would think you were a complete tosser and have no idea what you wanted, and would probably hand you a Babycham to get rid of you quickly.

Yeah I do

• which is probably pron

• which is probably pronounced menazingly

--I meant to say if I could type on my phone

Form an orderly queue for the grips please!

Reading football scores out to Dh...

Is it really pretentious to say rayal sothiadad rather than ree-ul socky-dad?

Can football fans even be pretentious?

Focaccia is pronounced "foh cah cha", with no "eee" sound.

Panini has become anglicised to mean one sandwich now . But I won't use it (will ask for a sandwich, roll or the neat get-around above of "One of those...").

I wouldn't ask for two cappucini in the UK, though.

beyond we definitely can be pretentious too. my mates are all ray-al sothiadadth (or however you would phonetically type that soft d) people. none of us are that good with Russian teams though...

Eat, I gave up trying to type a soft d

Chorizo is a horrible food. If it didn't exist then we wouldn't have to have a word for it at all

Chorizo is lush, proper pronunciation is mandatory, after all how many of you take your children to the tzooo - lose the fucking 't' FFS........ Otzone in the atmosphere??? tzylophone??? anyone??? I am a Spanish pronunciation 'Natzi' - ha, ha.... the Wizard of Otz????? And breathe, rant over....

I've been confused by the chorizo thing for years because when I first encountered it I was told by a chef - very emphatically - that it should be pronounced choreetso, so that's how I've always said it. But having learned Spanish, I couldn't understand why. It's taken this thread to make me realise that the chef in question was an idiot mistaken.

I'm probably saying latte, pizza and all the rest of it wrong too. Perhaps I should make myself a little memo card to carry around and pull out when shopping/eating out?

DD today was telling me about someone's cousin who's a "massoos". "A what?" "A massoos". "What's that then?" "Someone who gives people massages." "Oh - you mean a MASSEUSE" - says I, the proper French way. "No, it's pronounced 'MASSOOS'".

...unless of course "masseuse" pronounced the French way actually means something entirely different from an American "massoos" ...

First of all, it's not a question of "linguistics" - the theoretical study of language - but of practical language knowledge.
Second, just because people aren't experts doesn't mean they wouldn't do better to speak better, including imported words like "chorizo".
You might just as well accuse the Spanish of being unreasonable for not accepting the new illiterate English way as correct.
The only unreasonable thing about the original poster's point of view is that she is fighting a losing battle. I sympathise totally. My own adult daughter and, apparently, all her tapas-munching peers, all say "cher-its-oh". For one's own tranquillity one has to just accept change, however ignorance-driven.