To ask how would you pronounce this word?

[Pearlsofmadness]

Went to a snobby posh department store in London yesterday and bought a candle called Verveine. Now, as the brand is French, when I asked the assistant to smell it, I pronounced it 'VER-VAYN'. I took French at Uni dropped after a year so was quite confident with the pronunciation.
The assistant looked me up and down, smirked and said 'Oh... You mean VER-VEE-ERN' (as if it had three syllables). He made me feel very silly and small and continued to smirk as though I was stupid. It's only a little thing, I know, but I never go into posh shops and it was such a treat to buy something nice but it feels like it was spoilt a bit now- as if I wasn't 'good enough' to be there.
I just can't see how it's pronounced the way he said it though. AIBU to ask how the hell do you pronounce this word?

Years ago i worked on the fragrance counter of a very posh shop. Lots of mispronounciation went on on both sides of the counter. No smirking here.

Customers asking for poisson (as in french for fish) for Dior's 'Poison' used to make me smile inwardly though

Chipotle
Me - chip-ot-tul
Subway advert - chip-ot-lay

Anyone like to inform me of what it actually should be pronounced like?

It's chipot lay

I was teaching an English class and helping a student with a family tree, mother, brother etc.

The girl next to her leaned over and said to me , "No, that name's not pronounced xxx, it's pronounced yyy."

It's my first name

Years ago i worked on the fragrance counter of a very posh shop. Lots of mispronounciation went on on both sides of the counter.

I always had a problem with Anais Anais (it was all the rage in the 80s ), with the double dots over the i. I thought it was Ann-eye-iss, like the author Anais Nin, but lots of people said Annay, as though it were French. Ruling please, Laiste!

How the heck is Acai pronounced.

Apparently it's ah-say-ee. I heard it on some clean eating bore fest of a cookery show. I'd always thought it was ack-eye.

meowli the TV ads always pronounced it as Anay-ees Anay-ees.

In English, 'ver-vain'. In French, 'vair-vein' or 'vair-ven', depending on the region. I remember there's a character in Watership Down, called Captain Vervain, and in the film it was pronounced 'ver-vin' to rhyme with 'vermin', so again, it appears to be regional.

That sales assistant sounds like a knob. Also, her pronunciation appears entirely incorrect.

Thanks squoosh. Do you know, I don't think I've ever seen a TV ad for it.

I never liked the perfume much, but the ads were nice!

I would say Vair-venn.
Interesting about moos-a-KA.
I found out on MN it's bakla-VA too.

Reminds me of a time on holiday in America when I went to get some make up by Yves Saint Laurent. After I asked the assistant for it she looked slightly puzzled and went " Oh you mean the Eeeves Saynt La Rent" in her very southern accent. Um ok yes that's what I mean clearly.

Love the music on the Anais Anais ads, but the women on the 2nd ad look a bit dizzy and disorientated, as though they've just got off the merry-go-round on the 1st ad!

SaggyNaggy it's pronounced

Con-all the d is silent.

Vampire diaries definitely right.

I'd say Ver-ven unconfidently.

meowli
The dots separate vowels next to each other, so An-ay-is or An-eye-is (USA) like the dots in Zoe and Chloe (otherwise 'zo' and 'klo'. No dots would be 'an-ay'
But still I call the perfume 'anay-anay' cos everyone does.

I don't feel like a pretentious arsehole saying choreetho.

I would, but only because here in the US, Spanish speakers use Latin American pronunciations, so it's cho-REE-so.

I speak Spanish and over here, I feel like an utter knob saying 'choreetho'.

I would, but only because here in the US, Spanish speakers use Latin American pronunciations, so it's cho-REE-so.

I wondered how long before someone highlighted the different pronounciation in Latin America .

It's the addition of the 't' in the UK that gets on my tits. If said it with a completely English pronounciation it would be Chor-ee-zoh surely (so more like the south america, not entirely because the accent would be harsher) but for some reason people add the 't' like in pizza. So it's the crappy and incorrect foreign accent that makes 'choritzo' so annoying.