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AIBU: Dairylee or Dairylea!

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sapientia99 · 27/02/2019 10:40

My childhood is destroyed, my mind blown. Am I the only one who thought Dairylea was spelt and said Dairylee!?! DAIRYLEE is what my mum said, DAIRYLEE is what my friends said but now I find out that it was DairyleA all along! There's an A...an A! I think we need to petition immediately to have it changed to Dairylee...

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SmashedMug · 27/02/2019 10:42

YABU 😂 It was never and should never be dairylee.

dontlikewinter · 27/02/2019 10:42

Dairylea is pronounced dairylee like sea is pronounced see

VelvetPineapple · 27/02/2019 10:42

I think you’re the only one. Apart from anything else, it’s printed on the packet, so as soon as you could read you’d have known it was Dairylea.

Dairylea and Dairylee are pronounced the same though.

LostInShoebiz · 27/02/2019 10:42
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FrancisCrawford · 27/02/2019 10:42

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Houseonahill · 27/02/2019 10:42

I thought this was going to be the bizarrest baby name thread I'd ever read. I'm a bit disappointed now.

ScrambledSmegs · 27/02/2019 10:44

How old are you?

Butterymuffin · 27/02/2019 10:44

It IS said 'lee'. How do you imagine 'lea' would be said?

TheFaerieQueene · 27/02/2019 10:44

Did you also think the film was: ‘Interview with a Vampire ‘? 😂

sulflower · 27/02/2019 10:44

I thought this was going to be the bizarrest baby name thread I'd ever read. I'm a bit disappointed now.

Grin
cardibach · 27/02/2019 10:44

As others have said, how does that spelling misconception affect they way everyone SAID it? They’d be pronounced the same...
It’s from Lea: an area of open or arable ground, is where the cows graze. Lee would make no sense...

ScrambledSmegs · 27/02/2019 10:45

Btw a lea is an area of grassy land, such as wot cows graze on.

cardibach · 27/02/2019 10:45

Should say i.e. where the cows geaze, not is.

cardibach · 27/02/2019 10:46

Nice set of cross posts there, Scrambled.

ScrambledSmegs · 27/02/2019 10:48

Great minds, cardibach, great minds Grin

ZeroFuchsGiven · 27/02/2019 10:51

So now you think it is pronounced dairy lee ah?

lavalamp08 · 27/02/2019 11:02

Has anyone tasted it recently it's horrible, I thought I'd bought a faulty tub cos it was sloppy when I opened it 🤢 so sad as it's such a childhood favourite

Hunter037 · 27/02/2019 11:17

@lavalamp
Are you sure you didn't get a dodgy batch. We have dairylea all the time and is not at alll sloppy

shpoot · 27/02/2019 11:29

Pronounced the same Confused

22Giraffes · 27/02/2019 11:50

They are pronounced the same op! But no, can't say I ever thought it was leeWink

Santaclarita · 27/02/2019 11:52

How did you not know how its spelt? It's on the packet! Grin

I pronounce it like dairylee too. Dunno how else you would say it.

lavalamp08 · 27/02/2019 14:44

@Hunter037 oooo I really hope so then, I bought two tubs which were the same and other people have said it doesn't taste like it used to. I got some dairylee light and that weren't too bad but really if you are getting dairylee you need the full fat creamy stuff surely hahaha. I might try another tub then, fingers crossed 🤞🏼

needthisthread · 27/02/2019 14:47

I don't understand your post. Lea is pronounced Lee. Have you never seen Dairylea? How did you know they existed without every having seen them either in the fridge, on the TV or in the supermarket?

Quintella · 27/02/2019 14:50

You're lucky the makers of La Vache Qui Rit translated their product name for the UK. That would have really fucked you up.

RaffertyFair · 27/02/2019 14:54

DAIRYLEE is what my mum said, DAIRYLEE is what my friends said but now I find out that it was DairyleA all along! There's an A...an A!

What are you on about? Dairylee and Dairylea are pronounced exactly the same just as "see" and "sea" are pronounced the same Confused

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