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about people who pronounce cayenne "kye-ann"

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GrandTheftQuarto · 06/01/2015 21:37

They should all be shot.

See also: chewmeric, cardamon, and cummin.

Yes I know this is unreasonable. Especially for cummin.

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BuzzardBird · 06/01/2015 22:39

Brus -ket- a is correct btw.

shadowfax07 · 06/01/2015 22:39

With parmesharn? Angry

simbacatlivesagain · 06/01/2015 22:41

**

how do you pronounce that?

QuinnTwinny · 06/01/2015 22:43

Theimpossiblegirl - Am I being thick, what was she asking for?! It's driving me insane!

GrandTheftQuarto · 06/01/2015 22:46

Ky-enn, I can handle. Ky-ann, out come the rifles. Sad

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simbacatlivesagain · 06/01/2015 22:46

Ciabatta?

Fishandjam · 06/01/2015 22:47

My absolute hate - and I know IABU for getting so riled by it - is pronouncing "chocolatier" as "chock-lat-eer". Like a musketeer for cocoa products. Lindt adverts especially bad for this. I don't know why I loathe it so much, but I really, really do.

GrandTheftQuarto · 06/01/2015 22:51

I don't mind the anglicisation of chocolatier. Shocolatteeyay would strike me as just being too much like hard work. What I don't understand is why/how lingerie has become longzheray. I begin to doubt myself - shouldn't it be lanzheree or thereabouts?

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GrandTheftQuarto · 06/01/2015 22:52
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GlitzAndGigglesx · 06/01/2015 22:53

Croissant. 22yo and still not sure I'm pronouncing it right

GrandTheftQuarto · 06/01/2015 22:56

Solve all pronunciation problems and piss off the French at the same time by calling it a cornetto Smile

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Camolips · 06/01/2015 23:00

I don't think I've ever heard anyone say consoomer. I'm sure I say conshumer. Like asshume (assume) and preshume (presume) unless it's more of a zh type sound and I can't hear it properly.

GrandTheftQuarto · 06/01/2015 23:05

Consyumer and assyume are going the same way as syoot and syootable. I can't remember what it's called but it's apparently normal for things like tyoob to become toob or choob and consyume to become consoom or conshoom (apologies for horrendous fernettiks).

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Poofus · 06/01/2015 23:05

I have never heard any of those, Camolips! Asshume, really?

GrandTheftQuarto · 06/01/2015 23:06

And duel becomes dooel or jewel.

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GrandTheftQuarto · 06/01/2015 23:09

I don't know anyone under under the age of about eighty who says syootcase. Presoomably I will sound similarly old-fashioned when I am eighty and everyone reads/mind-vapes the nooz instead of the news Grin

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MoonlightandRoses · 06/01/2015 23:10

The mis-pronunciation may be due to Porsche - they use Kye-ann when talking about their 4x4, the Cayenne and the car's been around a while now, so might have moved into common parlance that way?

GrandTheftQuarto · 06/01/2015 23:16

4x4 Porsche Grin

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Bulbasaur · 06/01/2015 23:21

You're welcome. :)

GrandTheftQuarto · 06/01/2015 23:26

I guess that's following the French pronunciation, since it's a French word, but I'd have split it into ca and yenne, not cay and enne. Fair enough: kay-enn is out, ky-enn is in I'm still going to say kay-enn.

Still not bloody ann on the end, though, is it? Grin

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MoonlightandRoses · 06/01/2015 23:28

Yup - and they are pig-ugly too Grin

DandyHighwayman · 06/01/2015 23:30

how to prn bleach

In fact the whole series is tres amusant Grin

GoddessWhoWalksEarthAsWoman · 06/01/2015 23:31

Y y msgrinch I heard a colleague going "cher-eee-th-aw" the other day. V ridiculous.

SwedishEdith · 06/01/2015 23:37

I was randomly picked on tonight because of the way I pronounce coin. I've just realised it's remarkably like cayenne.

GrandTheftQuarto · 06/01/2015 23:43

Blush at not realising it was a comedy video Grin

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