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.

Only if OP and others also stop saying lah-tay to latte

It's a bit like saying pinot "greejeeo" when it should be "greejo"! Even DH still says it...

Now look here. I have bought the stuff on a few occasions, as it is recommended on here. It is rubbish I tell you! Husband doesnt like it, kids complain, even the animals turn their noses up at it!
So how to pronounce it? I dont care!
Good value though [if you use it all].

hahahah i make a point of asking for a 'lar-tay' in the 'spoons to avoid sounding like said pretentious wanker,

Well I'd much rather be thought of as a pretentious wanker than be deliberately wrong.

Choreetho, choreetho, CHOREETHO!

Anyway, I need to finish my expresso now and go out.

Mind you, chorizo gives me rampant indigestion. Not sure why I care, really.

What about paella. No 'll' sound in that, it's more like pae-ya. And the BBC constantly misprounces Beijing. In Mandarin it is a hard 'j' type sound not a soft 'zz'. Honestly.

I have no objection to anglicized forms, but as OP says, it's not anglicized, it's cod-Italian-icized. A plain z or s sound would be anglicized.

eSpresso darling please!!

This drives me round the fucking bend. It's not hard - choreetho (usual Spanish pronunciation) or choreeso (usual latin-American pronunciation) are both okay, even in Spanish.

I don't understand why people seem to think that 'choreetho' is more pretentious than 'choritso'. Neither of they contains the usual English pronunciation of 'z'. Why is it more pretentious to be right than to be wrong? And surely 'choreeso' is less pretentious than either?

I blame Delia.

Did you miss the wink Burberry?

I get so irritated by the choritzo pronunciation, choreetho is so say, much less harsh.

I can be found shouting at the TV when people mispronounce it.

have discussed the BBC/Beijing thing at length and we came to the conclusion that the BBC do it on purpose to show their contempt for the Chinese.

livinginwonderland - bwahahahaha. and quite valid.

no mardy i was joking along...
drink some more expresso

You don't want to know how I was pronouncing chipotle sauce before I found out how it was actually pronounced

I wonder if there is a Spanish mumsnet where the mums are arguing about how to pronounce 'baked beans' or 'marmite' in order to prove how cultured they are.

• somehow i doubt it.....

It's nada to do with being cultured Burberry.

I studied Spanish and have immediate Spanish family. Why would I go out of my way to butcher their beautiful language

perhaps not you bunny - I speak Spanish too as do many people.
anyway i do not care that much, I hear English 'butchered' every day

My mom says pitsa for pizza.

I try not to implode.

But she pronounces my name wronh, so really what chance has she got with other words?

Sigh.

I'm not named after a food stuff, btw.

ummmm ... but it is 'pitsa' isn't it?

Maybe if TV chefs pronounced it properly (Lorraine Pascal is particularly bad) the general public would say it properly. I wouldn't even mind if people said it as a Z. It's the ts thing that annoys me too.