It’s marshmAllow not marshmEllow

[MardyBra]

I’m looking at you Alison Hammond. FFS.

Ooh I can vote yanbu for myself. Never realised that.

If it was meant to be mellow it would be spelled that way.

It is a flower

Thank you! It irrationally annoys me when people get it wrong.

Eh?

I’m totally with you on this. Are you Scottish though? I never hear it pronounced -mallow in the SE only ever -mellow whereas in Scotland always -mallow.

Yes! Because originally it was from the root of the mallow plant. People saying it mellow drives me nuts!

https://candyusa.com/marshmallows/#:~:text=Ancient%20Egyptians%20were%20the%20first,that%20grows%20wild%20in%20marshes.

My DS mispronounces it. I have failed at parenting.

Mallow is a plant and that's where marshmallows originally came from. See my link.

No I’m English. thank you Scotland though.

I agree. Marshmellow sets my teeth on edge.

Thank you. I had no idea.

It's the American way of saying it I think, so has started to infiltrate our language. DD says it. I have also failed.

Nope, you can't always blame the Americans; they say marshmallow over here. Honest.

I was getting so annoyed! Why wasn’t she corrected? If the bloody presenters can’t get it right, who can?
I did notice that the Scottish lady said it beautifully every time. Noel started off saying mallow but towards the end was shifting into mellow.

I don't really pay attention but I feel like I've never heard anyone call it mallow

My adult DC argue with me that it’s mellow. I may have to disown them.

I’ve never heard any one call it marshmellow! How odd.

My apologies! Happy to be corrected. Where has it come from, then? I didn't hear it until about 10 years ago.

Althaea officinalis. So much easier to pronounce when it's in Latin 😂

Marshmellow definitely 🤣

Well I thought you were talking about that idiot with a bucket head

So glad I didn’t watch it. People saying marshmellow make me murderous.

I like Alison, but not her myriad language errors. And all the ‘was you’…🤨

I've never heard marshmEllow either! SW England

It is spelt "marshmallow" but pronounced "marshmellow" (according to several UK dictionaries) when speaking about the sweet, which is not made from the marshamallow plant anyway.