To ask you how you pronounce this cheese?

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How do you pronounce Gouda?

Gooda (YABU) or Gowda (YANBU)?

(If you're Dutch speaking and can say it properly properly, then I'm sorry, but you'll just have to shake your head and write a comment. Or silently move on whilst despairing of how English speakers mangle the names of your cheeses, artists and doubtless anything else we come across.)

the, not he.

It's how-da or Gow-da. Most definitely not Goo-da. I'm half Dutch and would use the gargling g sound but I'll forgive you that.

Hoo-da with a little phlegm on the h. Goo-da if Anglicising.

A Dutch friend spent part of a train journey to the coast with me teaching me how to pronounce words, including the famously difficult Scheveningen, which was where we were headed.

She said I made quite a good attempt, by sort of hurling myself at it.

I returned the favour when we had a trip to Wales ........

@Isthisfinallyit

Lotsofphlegm-how-da.

This sounds almost correct

Haha great description. I speak Afrikaans and would pronounce it exactly like that.

Hhowda

Lotsofphlegm-how-da.
Maybe it's easier to pronounce correctly if you eat a lot of it first?

I've always called it Gow-da, and didn't change the first consonant when I learnt how the Dutch say 'g', because I've never been to the Netherlands and people in the UK would think I'd lost my mind.

Gow-da in english, but I "know" how to pronounce it in Dutch!

I don't know, but others have helped. Sorry but I don't like ANY of the Dutch cheeses, they are rubbery or have big holes in them lol.

Just me so.

Phleghm and cheese in one thread. Stuff of my nightmares

Gow da

I say gow - da as does my childhood friend who is Dutch (but I'm sure she toned it down) definitely not goo- da though

Goo-da

How-da. Trust me on this. All the English speakers will tell you it is gow-da but it’s bullshit.

I say gow-da.

I say Gow da

Gow-da

@saveeno

*Sorry but I don't like ANY of the Dutch cheeses, they are rubbery or have big holes in them lol.
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You really need to stop buying the cheap shit that we export or sell to tourists. I love cheese but wouldn't touch that shit with a barge pole.

Gouda (gow-da in our house) isn't rubbery. It's amazing. I wish I'd bought some now :(

Weirdly when I've travelled to Netherlands expecting to find amazing cheese I've been mightily disappointed. I suspect my choice of Dutch supermarkets might be the problem.

I used to say gow-da but from now on I'll be saying Lotsofphlegm-how-da

If your experience of Dutch cheeses is that they are rubbery, go to a proper cheese shop.

Thanks for all your responses.

I am particularly pleased to find that the majority of you agree that I'm right

I'm sticking with gow-da though and not committing to the full Dutch Hjow-da unless I both learn Dutch and am speaking it. I'm firmly with Brecon on that. It's all just a bit too Paree/ Barthelona for me otherwise.