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

@ImaSababa

Oh I missed the Naomi bit! My DD is Naomi, and we pronounce it "Nay-oh-mi". Older people tend to say "NAY-uh-mee", and people with stronger regional accents (Lancashire) say "Nigh-oh-me".

I have a Naomi too, we pronounce it NAY-uh-mi, with a short O like in Briony or Hermione. A lot of people go with Nay-OH-mi, really emphasising the middle syllable, I think the Nigh beginning is more Northern? To be honest, if I’d realised how problematic it would be, I would have chose a different name.

I'd say Nay-Oh-me normally, but I'd pronounce it the way the person concerned wanted it. I know someone called Karen who pronounces it Care-un, so that's what I call her.

Oh, and I said Turkwoyse despite Tor-tuss and porpuss.

TORtus
PORpus
Forrid
NAY-o-mee
Zebra

Tor -toysz
My mother ( who thinks she’s posh but isn’t) says Tor- Tuss. But then she says tuth and rum (tooth and room) as well

That’s a Glottal Stop - which is an ironic name given it’s all about dropping your Ts

Pronounced glo'al stop, of course.

Agree with PPs how refreshing it is to have a discussion without anyone proclaiming their way is absolutely correct and being mean :)

OH has an accent, I have another and we live somewhere with a different accent.
The kids have got no hope.

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

Same here I am Scottish- my OH is English and says tort-iss.

Like the word Licorice.

As a scot I say Lick-riss

My English OH says Lick-rish.

@Alloftheboys

OH has an accent, I have another and we live somewhere with a different accent. The kids have got no hope.

I grew up like that and don't live where I went to school or lived as a young adult. No one can work out where I come from.

@speakout

Like the word Licorice.

As a scot I say Lick-riss

My English OH says Lick-rish.

Lickerish.

I use both tor-tus and tor-toys. I’ve got one so it’s a word I use quite often without putting much thought into it, no idea why I’m not consistent with how I pronounce it!

Normally, tor-tuss. But when talking to my 2 year old - tor-toys, like he says it!

@oldfatandtired1

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

Same here.

The Alice in wonderland joke wouldn’t work in my accent anyway. Because the lack of an r in ‘taught’ means it’d never sound like ‘tor-thus’.

Tor-toys por-poise. Not a Scot.

But I do say tur-kwahz, not tur-quoys, because it's French.

I say turk woise

beige is french but I say bayzh not bezh
and taupe as taup not top

It’s tor-tus or tor-toice - you’re saying it wrong, sorry OP.

tour-toice. Rhymes with choice.

Lickerish.

I've never heard anyone say tortoise the way you do, OP!

@Monty27 no I definitely say porpoise with a hard S, not a z. I think!!

@Alloftheboys I don’t say chewsday or toosday. It’s more like tewsday - tew like ew!

Tewsday Wensday

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@OwlBeThere
I think your pronunciation of Tuesday is correct.
OH tells me off when I say neck-lace for necklace. He thinks it’s neck-luss.

Tor-toys (Scottish)
Tor-tiss (DH from SE)

I say neck-luss but, where I live, a lot of people say neck-lace. Which, looking at the spelling is probably correct.