How do your pronounce tortoise?

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It isn't a word I often use. I don't have one. I rarely see them.

My husband pronounces is tour-tus and I say tour-toy-suh

I've actually googled this and I think I'm wrong?!

Please tell me someone else pronounces it as I do.

Don't get me started on porpoise

Torrr-tus

It's a weird word!

tore-toice (no idea how you'd spell it, but it rhymes with 'choice')

Tor tus

What about Naomi?

I say nay-o-me but a lot of people say nay-yome with emphasis on the ‘yo’

Tor toys

@ErrolTheDragon

tortus.

Otherwise the joke in Alice in wonderland wouldn't work - the turtle was called Tortoise because he taught us.

Exactly. Tortus.

@BackforGood

tore-toice (no idea how you'd spell it, but it rhymes with 'choice')

This is what I say I just did a crap job in the OP of making it clear ha

In my life I’ve pronounced it tor-toys, tor-tuss and tor-tice (to rhyme with lice). I tend to use the first two interchangeably these days. That being said, it’s not a word I use often.

Similarly I’ve used Turk-wise and Turk-woyze interchangeably. Actually no idea which is correct however if I found out explicitly that one my pronunciations was incorrect, I’d stop using it.

Tor-tuss (SW)
Tor-toice sounds French to me probably isn't!

@Cottagepieandpeas

Tor tus

What about Naomi?

I say nay-o-me but a lot of people say nay-yome with emphasis on the ‘yo’

I would say I pronounce Naomi Nay oh me

@oldfatandtired1
Yes!
I was reading through the first few replies thinking, nope that's not how I say it. Tor-toys is how I say it.

'We called him Tortoise because he taught us.'

Nigh-oh-mi

Por-puss.

@Cottagepieandpeas

Tor tus

What about Naomi?

I say nay-o-me but a lot of people say nay-yome with emphasis on the ‘yo’

I would say Nay oh may.

@oldfatandtired1

Tor-toys. Por-poise. Most Scots would pronounce similarly, I think.

Yep!

Or did we call him Turtle? It's tor-tuss anyway.

Tor-toyse with a hard 's'

Nai-oh-me

From the NW

Tor-toys (I'm Scottish)

@HaveeeeYouMetTed

I say it like tor-toyce. No idea if that's correct 🤷‍♀️

Yup same. You dont pronounce e's on the end

Tor- toyce

Definitely not ‘tour’ - that sounds different to ‘tor’ in my accent

Definitely not how the 'vet' pronounces it in peppa pig, which is infuriating.

She says it something like 'toy-toyce' in a kind of simpering, baby voice.

She also says 'loov-leh' as well for 'lovely', it's awful.

She doesn't come across as someone with a doctorate level qualification who's spent six years training tbh.

What's a porpoise?

I say tor toys

Tor toy suh

@HaveeeeYouMetTed

I say it like tor-toyce. No idea if that's correct 🤷‍♀️

i say this one

Torr-toyce - also Scottish, but I have too many rs in it for just the one, lol

And porr-poyce

Naomi is nye-omi unless the Naomi says it differently then I’d say it how she did for her.

Another Scot here, another tor-toys and por-poise.

The rhyme referred to above made me think of the one about the little girl with the little curl in the middle of her forehead. As a child I used to think it was silly because it didn't rhyme with the last line, but as an adult was amazed to find some people pronounce it "forrid". Is fore-head a Scottish thing?

I say tor-toys (Scottish)