You say tchoritso...

[BrillianaHarvey]

...and I say khoritho. Because it's RIGHT. That's how ACTUAL SPANISH PEOPLE say it because it COMES FROM SPAIN.
So why do you look pityingly at me as though I'm some kind of illiterate imbecile, and get me to repeat it, several times, before you say, triumphantly, 'Oh, tchoritso!' like you've just cracked the fucking Enigma Code?
And it crosses my mind, fleetingly, that perhaps my life would have been easier if sometimes I'd chosen to be wrong instead of weird.

Queen, similarly people who make a big thing of calling a croissant a cwass-on in a really strong French accent.

I am sniggering slightly at the fact that the Op is apparently pronouncing it wrong.

Disclaimer: Unless those people saying croissant are French of course!!

Was offered a "kwasson" the other day. Took me a moment to realise it was a croissant.

If you're an actual foreign then it's fine. But if you're a smug English wang then you'll look like a smug English wang.

Yes Long, exactly!

Ooh crikey longdiling, cross-posted! But I'm glad I'm not alone in this : )

Well bugger me. I will have to see whether the totally authentic pronunciation gets a more satisfactory response.

ity's fine to pronounce the th if you are speaking spanish
but when i go to tesco in town to buy it i am not in spain and i am not speaking spanish
so prounouncing the 'th' simply makes me sound like a wanker

ditto saying 'pi-ay-a'

unless you are in spain or speaking spanish you sound a nob-it's pie-ella

Just going to grow in a quinoa for for the fun of it

You are speaking Spanish though because it's a Spanish word. Say sausage if you want to speak English.

My mum always said "choritho". She also said "yama" instead of llama, because they're from South America. Oddly though, she wasn't amused when I started saying "hagwar" instead of jaguar.

You are speaking Spanish though because it's a Spanish word. Say sausage if you want to speak English

You're obviously not speaking Spanish. And its not a sausage.

I suppose, without wanting to come over all serious in what was supposed to be a relatively ironic post, that the natural phonetic English pronunciation would be choreyezo, so anything else is attempting some kind of authenticity. Pie-Ella makes no such claim.
Croysant, anyone?

Well it's not really a word anyone uses too often is it?

I find it really hard to say anything other than "chor-ee-tho" because the first time I encountered it was in company with my colleague from Madrid, who spoke excellent English and when I heard her pronounce it like that, I just assumed that's how it was pronounced everywhere. In fact at the time I didn't even know it was a Spanish sausage, it was just that spicy sausage she always asked for in her sandwich at the posh sandwich shop we went to most days. When you hear a word, you just think that's what the word is! So for years I was pronouncing it the same way and not realising I probably came across as a right pretentious tit.

How is chorizo not a Spanish word?

Re croissants. Yeah, ok, but I have a French and Italian degree, I'm not being a knob on purpose. I see "croissant", and it says "kwass-on" not "kroyss-ant". I'd have to deliberately mispronounce it and I'd just get confused.
On the other hand I do say "a panino" not "a panini", mostly just to be a dick. and because it's right ffs

I say cho-ree-tho. I also day kin-oh-ah because I've been eatjng it for yonks before people decided to say it like a bloody air kiss.

Never mind the sausage how am I supposed to say croissant if I shouldn't be saying kwason? croy-sant? seriously what is the English pronunciation? I don't think I make a big thing of it that's just what they are called (Sorry to derail )

my dh says Chor eet zo

I say chor it zo

Either way we know what we are talking about and so does the butcher......khoritho, likely not as we aren't actually Spanish or in Spain.

But has saying ''chor-ee-tho" made your life as difficult as the op's pagestillnotfound?

Janejeffer we always have it in the fridge in some form and it's used multiple times a week.

Hahaha, oh.. I needed this after reading the giant trans thread.

Presumably it can call itself whatever it decides to. I say choritzo, but apparently that's mislabelling. I don't know what to think.

I speak Spanish and have no issue with anyone correctly pronouncing chorizo in a non-Spanish speaking country. It does get on my wick though when some people use the local pronunciation of place names instead of the Anglicised versions. Shouldn't do, but it does. Not as much as my dad saying 'choritzo' though .

"Hagwar"

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