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.

[Theimpossiblegirl]

Sorry to leave you hanging, yes it was ciabatta. I just checked it on the pronunciation link and I was right, she was wrong (dances gleefully off to bed).

[BuzzardBird]

Glitz a 22yr year old croissant is pronounced 'stale' hth?

[DandyHighwayman]

i would prn coin same as groin

(Always puts me in mind of Bill Bryson ruminating on lexical perverts going to a beach to rub groynes, moooo haha)

[SwedishEdith]

Apparently I say coy-yun. I refuse to be believe I could sound so stupid.

[ToomanyChristmasPresents]

I'll continue saying "Kay-Ann pepper." Very important to add the word "pepper" btw, never said on its own. It's how I've always said it, and how the people around me have said it. I am from the part of the USA where we even actually cook with it sometimes. In fact, it's in my pantry right now! I don't believe my very lovely, English mil has it in her kitchen at all, and I have certainly never been served a meal made by her or my equally lovely SIL with cayenne pepper as an ingredient.

Seems a bit unfair to rag on the way people pronounce cayenne pepper, especially when those are the people who actually eat the stuff!

[ToomanyChristmasPresents]

Darned auto spell. Kay-Ann = Kye-Ann.

[GlitzAndGigglesx]

Buzzard good one!

[SwedishEdith]

I stick cayenne in everything. But don't call in Kay-Anne Pepper.

[2rebecca]

Have always pronounced it Kye-anne and am not going to change because someone on mumsnet pronounces it differently.

[PolkadotsAndMoonbeams]

Proshecco just sounds like you've had too many glasses of it... "Ooh, I jusht love proshecco ".

I say consumer properly, but then I also say tiss-you. I don't say syootcase though. My great great aunt had a friend called Syoosan, which doesn't sound right at all!

[GrandTheftQuarto]

Don't take offence, Toomany - I'm from Yorkshire and live in the Home Counties, so I pronounce everything wrongly

[Medoc]

Cayenne is pronounced Kai-enn

[GrandTheftQuarto]

BTW British people do use cayenne, and I bet I can beat you in a culinary pepper-off - currently, I have black pepper, pickled green peppercorns, cayenne pepper, two kinds of paprika, cubeb, long pepper, and the Nepalese version of Sichuan pepper. I like pepper

[GrandTheftQuarto]

(I know, I know, but paprika is made from bell peppers, innit )

[GrandTheftQuarto]

A lot of British kitchens will have a jar labelled "chilli powder" instead of cayenne pepper.

[Discopanda]

I always pee myself laughing when people pronounce 'cumin' as 'cummin'. My MIL calls cinnamon 'cinnerMON' with an overemphasis and it drives me up the wall.

[GrandTheftQuarto]

The annoying thing about chilli powder is that sometimes, it means dried powdered chilli, like cayenne pepper is, and sometimes it means "powder for making chilli" - in which case you have the slightly weird situation of having a jar of stuff labelled chilli powder, the first ingredient of which is chilli powder

But the big bags of chilli powder are just chilli. Mmm. Chilli.

That word is starting to look wrong to me now. Chilli.

[Discopanda]

I hate people (usually on CDWM) saying Jew instead of jus as well. Oh, and I pronounce latte as 'lar-tay' and, unless you have a European accent, pronouncing it as 'lat-ay' sounds chavvy.

[GrandTheftQuarto]

My mum says "cummin grey" for grey cumin

[Discopanda]

GrandTheftQuarto I kind of know what you mean, especially if you google something to do with chilli and both spellings come up. Which one is right?!?! Chilli or chili?!

[GrandTheftQuarto]

I say lat-ay. I do have a European accent, though. It's from Yorkshire I also hate asking for a latte because I am a twat who is overly conscious of the fact she's just ordered a glass of milk in Italian.

[Discopanda]

Cummin grey, if ya know what I mean, nudge nudge, wink wink...

[GrandTheftQuarto]

I think chilli is British and chili is US, panda, but TBH both are looking weird to me now

[Discopanda]

Maybe it's a southern thing, I'm in the home counties and 'lat-ay' just sounds urgh. Yeah, surely lattes are actually latte macchiattos?!

[GrandTheftQuarto]

Latte macchiato, or caffe latte, or something? Not sure. I'm also unsure of the difference between a caffe macchiato and a latte macchiato. That's why I get a cappuccino