about people who pronounce cayenne "kye-ann"

[GrandTheftQuarto]

They should all be shot.

See also: chewmeric, cardamon, and cummin.

Yes I know this is unreasonable. Especially for cummin.

Re the Peugeot thing - I've heard people pronounce it pwee zjhot (not sure how to spell that sound). More than one person so this is some sort of pronunciation somewhere.

swedish, I suspect it's only a thing amongst people who know no French at all (and don't watch Top Gear ).

Newculur - as in power and weapons. It's flaming well NEWCLEAR!

Mil pronounces cumin "koomin", which makes my teeth itch. She's another one who uses chewmeric. Mind you, we call the latter haldi which is much harder to getwrong!

Hing is a lot easier than asafoetida too

I also enjoy saying, "Phew, it bloody hings in here!"

I have a child that regularly says nu-cu-lar and I make him write it on paper and chunk up the syllables and re-say it every time. Drives me crazy when I hear it.

Scone, the name I have the most trouble with is Don and Dawn, they are said exactly the same here.

Hmm cumin, it is 'koomin' though? I can't bear it when people say 'q-min'.

So will someone tell me how pronounce

QUINOA

Please!

Like keenwaa

Keen-wah

Spoony, that Don/Dawn merge is a California thing, I think. In my accent, there is a clear difference.

I say Keen -Wah too.
Also say Queue- min :)

dh's friend calls the yellow corn things "tortillers". And most people round here seem to say "Prezzohs" with a soft z and an extended o at the end.

The dcs say I'm being poncey by saying I'm going to Cafe Nehro instead of Neeero.

I must admit that I've discovered years later that I was merrily pronouncing things incorrectly. As a teenager in the 80s I was a big fan of the perfume I thought was called Anay Anay.

I could hear a colleague repeating an address over the phone today in Bicester, pronouncing it as Bitchester

No wonder she had to repeat it so many times!

One of the links someone posted above led me to a discussion of the witch/which merge. I pronounce the h in which, which according to the article is common in some US accents (mainly Southern) but not common in the rest of the US or the UK, except for Scotland. Anyone want to say how you pronounce "which"? Does it sound the same as witch? Are wine and whine the same in your accent? Wales and whales?

It's lev-e-OH-sar, not Levi-o-SAR...

Blueberry

We are the Hermy-owns!

Witch/which
Whales/Wales
Whine/wine
All the same sound for me

Same here Swedish.

How about pour/pore/poor? I pronounce the first two the same, but poor is more like poh-ur.

First two the same for me, last one more like poo-ur (r pronounced)

I couldn't decide whether I say poh-ur or poo-ur. It's sort of halfway between. But non-rhotic. I'm not from bloody Lancashire, after all.

(Please no death threats, I love all you Lancashire folks really )

I'm scottish, so there is a difference between wh and w as a sound when I say them.

I pronounce pour and pore the same, but poor is completely different (and 'ooh' sound not and 'oh' one). DS2 brings home phonetic reading books from school that claim ore, oor, or and aw are the same sound, which always bamboozles me.

Yes, with the r pronounced (and even rolled) at the end.

When I worked on a deli counter as a school girl, someone asked me for a quarter of briy rather than brie :)

I spend years pronouncing bouclé boussle until someone corrected me with a smirk in M&S.

I'm still not sure about tousled to be honest...

I have a friend who self consciously always pronounces the TH in thyme, but not in Thames!!!

I am glad I am not the only one wondering why turmeric has lost it 'r' all of a sudden!!!