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.

[GrandTheftQuarto]

Hang on, Wikipedia says bio-pic, doesn't it? Emphasis on the first syllable?

Nope, brain still refuses to accept it. Come on, brain!

[msgrinch]

I've heard feta pronounced three different ways this week so I'm sensitive to the issue. I'm going to drink my vodka and coke and eat my pringles as it's easier to translate than when I drank prosecco and ate tapas. (I promise I'm not a snob. Honestly. I'll demolish a whole pack of mini turkey kieves in one sitting in my granny pants)

[serendipityspeaks]

An 'h' in prosecco? I say, I say!! A 'hache' in prosecco...bring me my smelling salts...

[WowserBowser]

Alexander and Richard can never be wrong

Tis true

[TaliZorahVasNormandy]

Nope, it has ?ba??p?k/ Bai instead of Bi-o.

[BuzzardBird]

How do you put 'h' in Prosecco?

Anyone for 'lartay'?

[GlitzAndGigglesx]

msgrinch I had a teacher in school who thought of him self as very well travelled. He would pronounce is fay-ah

[simbacatlivesagain]

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practises

[OhShittingHenry]

Bruschetta is another one. Say it in England with the correct pronunciation and you'll get looked at as if you were a chorizo snob! Say it the wrong English way in Italy and you'll probably get spit in your dinner!

[TaliZorahVasNormandy]

Oh apparently Bio-pic and Bi-op-pic are acceptable ways of saying it, the latter American the former UK. I gotta go with the Americans on this one.

[GlitzAndGigglesx]

Is it not pronounced bru-shet-ah or am I common as muck?

[TaliZorahVasNormandy]

Bru-shetta or am I totally common.

[GrandTheftQuarto]

But it has the little apostrophe-looking emphasis thing before the b

[BuzzardBird]

According to the wine journal it is 'pro-say-ko'

[GrandTheftQuarto]

Ah, clarification and reassurance from Tali there

[TaliZorahVasNormandy]

You can hear the way the are meant to be said

[NomDePrune]

In a wine bar job I was once asked for a "giraffe of white wine"

[TaliZorahVasNormandy]

Ok I am common, its Bru sket a

[DandyHighwayman]

[GrandTheftQuarto]

Anything Greek is impossible. I did a bit of Ancient Greek at school and can't get used to the way actual Greek sounds. All soft and mumbled and weird

[Taffeta]

I've met a few utter knobs people that say, in an Itaiaaano accent "Proshecco".

[NomDePrune]

Prosciutto anyone?

[Theimpossiblegirl]

SIL phoned me in the supermarket once and asked me to pick up some seer-batter bread. I honestly had no clue what she was on about until she started to spell it out. I thought she was wrong but am now starting to think I'm just common...

[GlitzAndGigglesx]

Pro-shoot-ee-oh but it's probably prosco or something ridiculous

[CheerfulYank]

But it is ky-enn pepper. At least in the States.

I ate a burrito with ky-enn in Shy-ANN.

Yup.