How do you pronounce breakfast?

[Dakotablue]

It's pronounced 'brek-fast' isn't it?
Hearing people pronounce it 'break fast' really sets my teeth on edge.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Breek-foost

How is break being pronounced in your OP? Breek or brake?

I say ‘brekf’st’. Northern accent.

I hate break-fst too. BREK. It’s BREK.

My nan used to do this. She also pronounced funeral and ‘fyoon-duh-rul’. Yea, with a random D in there!!

Breckfsst.

Brekf'st, in Essex. I've neve heard anyone anywhere say break-fast.

Break fast, emphasis on the break. As do all my elderly relatives etc who still live where I'm from, NE Scotland.

Brikky-brekka-roozles when talking to my 3-year-old. I should be shot at dawn.

I say brek-fust

My Nan appeared on regional tv programme years ago and spoke in her Hyacinth Bucket/telephone voice throughout including a heavily enunciated Brake-fast. It’s been a family in-joke ever since!

Hahaha 🤣^
Brek-fst (north)

Breck-fust

Brek-fust. Who the hell says break - fast. Never heard anyone say it like that in my life 😂

DP says Brekker. He’s such a posh twat sometimes.

Actually thinking about it, a Scots accent would make it sound like break-fast

Mine used to say bek wast so that's what it is

Brek-fust

nw but my accent is fairly neutral

Interesting. Also in NE Scotland, I’d say Brek-fast. But let’s face it accents here change every few miles..

Not all Scots accents (of which there are many). I can hear it in the NE one mentioned above, but not my own (central belt).

the Glaswegian “brek-fist” sounds nothing like the way an RP speaker would say “break”, which is what I think OP was describing.

However, funnily enough, the Glaswegian pronounciation of “break” is actually “brek”
(as in “Geeza brek” meaning “give me a break/knock it off”) so Glaswegians would pronounce the two the same!

Brek first im from London

This. South East.

Brekk-fust

Brekfust.

Yorkshire

Brek fust
Lancashire

Brek fust......however as it's so called because you're breaking a fast, break fast is how it should be said.

I've definitely heard other Scots say break- fast but I don't

Brekker.

But the word means to “break one’s fast” ie first meal after overnight fasting while asleep, or a fast for religious purposes.

So pronouncing the word in two syllables has a logic to it(weird, but there’s a logic).