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

Tor tis

Joining all the other Scots and saying tor-toys

Also por-poise
Nigh-oh-me
Four head (or heid!)

Tortus*
Porpus*
Tur-kwoyz
Nay-oh-me

*not an actual u sound - using that to represent the unaccented schwa.

I’m Australian - in these “how do you pronounce...” threads I have noticed we tend to pronounce most things like the South of England does.

And I say forrid, but you hear both here.

puts hard hat on and gets into bunker it’s tor-tus and AICH NOT HAICH.

Tor-toyce like choice

Well I have absolutely no idea 🤦‍♀️ I have read I too many times now and can't remember how I would say it. I'll have to try and get it into conversation to see what sounds natural. Tortoyce? Tortus? I'm confused. Maybe I use both?

@Noconceptofnormal Sorry to break it to you, but evidently your concept of what a person with a doctorate sounds like is incorrect!

I say tor-tus. Some people say tor-toys.
Both are correct.

I'm another Scot that says tor-toys.

I'd guess the pronunciation is Tour/Tor-tuss.

I think in ye olden days in english it was spelt Tortuce - a fact I still remember from uni. Spelling was changed at some point to current one, which does read like Tor-toyce.

For Naomi. In modern Hebrew we would say Nu-ohm-ee, most English seem to say their name as Nigh-omi.

Tor Toyce

Tor-tuss.

Tur-toyss.

Tur-toyce.

Tor-tuss Pour-pus. Essex born and bred.

tor-tus

Tortus, the ‘us ‘ sound being more clipped than us (the us meaning you and me).

When we were young we used to say things like 'I didn't do it on porpoise' instead of 'purpose' because we thought we were really, really funny. It's became so ingrained I now have to stop and think what the correct pronounciation is - or pretend I'm from New York.

TOR-tuss
Nigh-OH-me
FORE-head (I dont say forred)
POR-poys

English

Tor-toys - Scottish here.

Tawr diss (NI) 😊

Tor-toyce to rhyme with Boyce. South Wales. I have met many (if any) people with my accent who say it tor-tuss, but I know a lot of people who do. I keep them as pets so I talk about them often that most people I should think.

Tor as in for toise as in toys - Scottish