To think it's Ter -meric and not Too-meric?

[MereDintofPandiculation]

Listening to the Food Programme this morning about adulteration of herbs and spices, and nearly every one was pronouncing Turmeric as if it didn't have the first "r". Is that right? Have I been saying it wrong for years?

@Wellthisisntgreatreally

Goodness no but you must if you are so offended.

Though I think I may have said it myself Is it? I've never heard that!.

I can't find any evidence on google for chewmeric. Lots for termeric and toomeric.

https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2012/06/turmeric.html

If you read my post as me being offended that says more about you than me

Yeah, but I don't have a Scottish accent

This is a great question. I’ve heard chew, too and ter but would love to know the definitive answer.

Wikipedia with tju as an alternative suggests chewmeric is a normal and correct pronunciation along with termeric

I don’t what accent has to do with it, the word is spelled tU not tE

Wikipedia is on crack then!
It's Turr not Tje

TERmeric
MIS-chiv-us (not mischiev-ee-ous)

Also is it cardamon or cardamom? I think both are accepted.

Cambridge dictionary has come down on the side of /ˈtɜː.mər.ɪk/

ˈtəːmərɪk OED also goes with Ter.

@Wellthisisntgreatreally

Ah, so speculation of one's life is normal for you?

You're regarding the j as a modifier of the t whereas @Waitingfordoggo was treating it as a modifier of the u, which is what I would have read it as.

[ˈtəːmərɪk]

I was responding to the =very definite rr which was in neither of my alternatives and which I wouldn't pronounce.

it's all very well to say that it's spelt tu, but how are you pronoucing your u? Like "tune" or like "tug"? Or like turpentine" which is surely rhymes with "serpentine"?

I say it like tug or rug, as there’s no “e” to make it have the you sound

What does the BBC pronunciation guide say, I wonder?
Pretty sure the 'expert' on the programme initially said Tur Mur ick but then changed to mirror the presenter. Which was weird.

YANBU. It’s ‘ter’ not ‘too’. As you’ve said, there’s an ‘r’ there.

Why ‘ter’ when it’s spelled ‘tUr’?

YOU. ARE. NOT. BEING. UNREASONABLE.

I swear at the telly and the radio all the time when I hear cookery people say Tew-meric. Can they just not read, or what? Why do they think the R is silent?

Also equally annoying was when that Scottish bloke who played DS Arnott from Line Of Duty did his travel programme on Norway and kept talking about Norwegian 'kew-zeen.' It's spelled cuisine. The c, u and i sound together make a qui sound, not a kew sound, like cucumber. There is an i in there. Use it.

I am afraid that although I know it is tur-meric I still pronounce it tew-meric. I don't know why.

And is it kewmin or cummin?

The first one like "girl" at the beginning but with a rhotic R (so the first R is pronounced) the second one more like the posters who say "tumarik" etc.

According to this Article - both appear to be correct.

A Scottish accent is rhotic so all Rs are pronounced.

English spelling often doesn't tell you how the word is pronounced.