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How would you pronounce vegetable?

116 replies

217liz217 · 04/02/2017 20:09

veg-e-table or veg-ta-ble?

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ptangyangkipperbanguuh · 04/02/2017 20:59

How about a specific vegetable?

How do you say lettuce...?people who say lettiss really grind my gears.

I am filling all the silences where OP should be explaining her intrigue...

ptangyangkipperbanguuh · 04/02/2017 21:00

But Bewty , are you Scottish or a posh twat??!?

joystir59 · 04/02/2017 21:08

Veg- tabul. My OH loves the way I say this word and makes me repeat it to shrieks of laughter.

Huldra · 04/02/2017 21:08

The second.

Someone on breakfast tv let saying courgeeeet the other day. On the 3rd cut back to the veggie shortage story she reverted to Courgette. I want to know if she was a little tongue tied standing out in the cold or had always pronounced it that way.

joystir59 · 04/02/2017 21:09

Lettiss is wrong? How else can you pronounce 'lettuce' OP?

joystir59 · 04/02/2017 21:11

Bus or bas? I've always said bus- I'm from Coventry which my Londoner wife thinks is 'up North'. 'Bus' is another word that makes her laugh.

joystir59 · 04/02/2017 21:14

Wensdy, Libry, Febry, BUT I do say appreciate not appreshiate.

joystir59 · 04/02/2017 21:16

My OH said Birminhum instead of Birmingham earlier this evening.

ptangyangkipperbanguuh · 04/02/2017 21:23

Am not OP joystir : OP went silent.

I say let-uhs. Sort of. Not sure how to write it...with stress on lett

ptangyangkipperbanguuh · 04/02/2017 21:25

Hence the news at the moment about Iceberg Lettices is driving me mad... and brockly. Shudder.

JerryFerry · 04/02/2017 21:29

When I was a kid I thought there was an n involved so called it vench-tibble

CaoNiMa · 04/02/2017 21:36

Another North Westy here. I say "vedgi-tubul" (god, autocorrect had a field day with that - pun intended...)

VeryBitchyRestingFace · 04/02/2017 21:38

Veg-ta-bel

Wens-day

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VeryBitchyRestingFace · 04/02/2017 21:38

Wensdy, Libry, Febry, BUT I do say appreciate not appreshiate.

Scottish?

ptangyangkipperbanguuh · 04/02/2017 22:12

Sorry Very but if that's Scottish pronunciation I'll bile ma heid.

Wedensday
Feb Rewary
Libe rairy

is Scottish... I believe.

ptangyangkipperbanguuh · 04/02/2017 22:12

But it could be Embra pronunciation. They're odd...

MothersRuinart · 04/02/2017 22:13

dh says vedguh-table Grin

VeryBitchyRestingFace · 04/02/2017 22:14

Wedensday
Feb Rewary
Libe rairy

is Scottish... I believe.

I am Scottish. I don't pronounce February and Library like that. Others might though.

ScarletForYa · 04/02/2017 22:15

Veg-tibble.

dimdommilpot · 04/02/2017 22:19

I say veg -E- table

NotLadyPrickshit · 04/02/2017 22:25

Wedensday
Feb Rewary
Libe rairy

is Scottish... I believe.

Wed'nsday
Feb-U-ry
Lie-bra-ry

Is how I'd pronounce them & I'm Scottish

Veg-ti-bill

Oh & I say lettis 🙈

cherrycokehead · 04/02/2017 22:29

My little brother pronounced it venchtable when he was a toddler (he's 29 now) and I still call them that in my head.

YesItsMeIDontCare · 04/02/2017 22:29

Once upon a time, many years ago, DS had a wonderful way of saying

vij-a-bulls

Now he pronounces it the same as PurpleNurple's kids, but with a stress on the first "urghhh" syllable. 🙄

ptangyangkipperbanguuh · 04/02/2017 22:34

my Scottishness may admittedly be compromised by my American mother and Geordie father...but we all agree on library and Wednesday I think....

TheColourIsZebra · 04/02/2017 22:39

It sounds like 'vesh-ta-bulls' when I say it.