Liqourish or Liqouriss?

[PyongyangKipperbang]

I say Liqourish but in a couple of audio books I have listened to lately, both the readers say Liqouriss.

Am I wrong?!

YANBU for Liqourish
YABU for Liqouriss

ish

But it's one of the few words I still say in Dutch in my head first. I've forgotten most of my Dutch now having lived here most of my life, but there's still the odd word where I think in Dutch first

Licor-rish

Liquoriss. Where do you get the "sh" sound from?

I say Licorish
"Licoriss" always sounds extremely posh to me! In a similar way I find it irritating when I hear radio presenters say "tiss-you" for tissue (I say Tish-you), or "secks-ual" for sexual (I say "seck-shual"). Probably nothing wrong with either way, I just prefer my way!

Liquoriss.

@EBearhug

Er... sherbet? The same way it's spelled?

Sher-bit. Not sher-bert - there's no second R or long E sound in it!

Lickarish

amusedbush I'd say sherbut

Love the stuff
My sister used to call it 'Spanish'

Iss

@MadisonAvenue

I will accept sherbut

My American friends call Sorbet Sher-bert. It makes me feel really twitchy lol.

I say Shur-But.

Ish. I am an unrepentant pleb.

Ish in Yorkshire. It was created here so we know best .

To me pronouncing sherbet as written would not involve saying sherbit. That would be spelled sherbit. I'd say sherbet like sherbert but with no second r if that makes sense. So literally sherbet. Liquorice is ish not iss. And it's so horrible I'd never buy it anyway

Definitely 'iss'. I'm in central Scotland.
I've always assumed the 'ish' was an Americanism that people have picked up by watching TV. My Husband says 'ish' and it makes me irrationally angry, Same as people who say 'New Years' instead of 'New Year' - arrrrrrrrrgh.

Lakritz where I live.

Lickerish allsorts but lickeriss comfits. I don't make the rules.

Lick a rish for me

Sherbut here, too, definitely not sherbit. I don't think I have ever heard anyone say sherbert, but then I can't think of how anyone says it, apart from myself. I think I might have spelled it with a second r though. I wonder if it depends on whether someone has an accent with rhotic or non-rhotic Rs.

Definitely iss

Lickorish sounds daft

Neither - it's Liquorice.

Do the -ish people also say tishoo and the -iss people say tissoo?

FWIW it's -ish in both instances 😀

I think licorish might be an American thing? It’s funny because I am usually a pedant and a stickler for correct pronunciation but I’ve always said licorish because that’s how I heard it said as a child (in my 50s and not American) yet I know it’s not spelt like that.

When I read the word licorice I still say licorish in my head.

Salty liquorice? I like the sound of that!

Ish for me.

Hi ,my first Mumsnet post here ! I was in Pontefract ( just outside) a few years back camping at a green hippie gathering and went into town to buy some Pontefract cakes for my elderly mum ,they are a very old fashioned sweet .The traditional English spelling from the sweetie maker he informed me is ' liqourice' so no ' H' in site !!
The English language is a positive mind bender and considering it's actually more or less the same size as New York state the vast difference a in colloquial terms,names and even spellings is crazy !! Ooo now I wish I had a few liquorice sticks to chew on xx Sophie