How do your pronounce tortoise?

[Newmumatlast]

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 tuss. But then I say turkwoyz for turquoise....

@Cottagepieandpeas

Tor tus

What about Naomi?

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

Nigh-o-me

Tortuss and porpuss

Turk woyz (rhymes with boys)

Fore head (forrid is old fashioned posh, I think)

I read the headline and got in a tizzy....think I say tor tus but hear tor toys when I read it

@Noconceptofnormal

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.

I don't know if this is a regional thing but there's nothing wrong with that accent. The implication that nobody with an accent other than the Queen's English can be highly educated is rediculous.

I'm near Belfast and it's usually tortus here, although I've heard both. In fact, we're very hit and miss with our 't' sound, so it's probably more like tordus

Another Scot here, so 'tor-toys' for me.

This thread has been pleasingly short on posters saying "But this is the right way, and everyone else is wrong!". The notion that there are regional variations - accents and dialects - all just as valid and correct, finally catching on.

Apart from the Peppa pig moaner, that is 🙄

Tortus - london
Dh had a lovely old one for over 40 years, it was adult when he was given it so no idea hpw old she was

@Wandafishcake

Tor-toyce like choice

Same!

@oldfatandtired1

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

Yes, Scot here and I say tor-toys too.

Yes Scots tend to say tor-toicce, por-poice to rhyme with choice. And turquoise.

Or tor-toys really in Scotland

Ive lived in London, Scotland, Liverpool and Manchester and think I've only ever heard this pronounced tor-toyce. Not that its a word bandied around every day

Toor-tuss

Or toor-toice in my posh voice!

Tor-tus -- I quite enjoy pronouncing it tor-toyce but that's not my natural accent

Same.

Tor-toys
Por-poys
Both rhyming

Tor-tuss
Por-poyce
Nigh-oh-me
Aych

Oh, England

Yep, Scottish, and say tor-toys and por-poys. With a soft s at the end.

@oakleaffy

''Tortuss'' as in ''As Jesus Tought us''

I went to a Church school, and at infant school the headteacher saying ''We will now say the Lord's Prayer as Jesus taught us''

I heard ''As Jesus Tortoise''.

But my neighbour who had a magnificent huge 60 yr plus tortoise called her :
''Tor-toyse''

My friends DD burst into tears one Sunday because she'd been praying for "Jesus Tortoise" every week and it still hadn't shown up

We have a tor-toys here in our West of Scotland household. She's about 60 years old we think, currently tucked up in a shoebox in a fridge in the garage.

Tour and tor sound the same in my accent.

Tor-toyce
Porp-uss
Turk-oyse
Nay-oh-me

Agree with the fellow Midlander above about tissue though. Tishoo not tiss-you. Ishoo not iss-you.

Definitely tortoys in Scotland. There used to be a toy shop in Glasgow (Muirend, near the cinema) called Tortoys for this very reason.

Fortis.
Porous
Turk oiz