Pronunciation of Scallops

[TheShellBeach]

Just that, really.
Do you say "scallops" or "scollops"?

Scallops for fish, Scollops for potatoes. West Midlands here

Scollops.

Those potatoes are dauphinoise.

Scallops for all uses.

My in-laws say Aldi like Oldi, which probably deserves a thread of its own.

That is not a potato scallop!

You get them in the chippy for about 60p, they're a LITTLE bit like a hash brown, but one big bit, rather than little bits of potato stuck together. Really good in a cob.

Anyway, I digress. ScOllop. For both.

Scallops for the fish (Scottish). Don’t really use the word for the potato type (though am aware of it).

I thought they were scallions. Or are scallions diced?

Scallions are spring onions.

Scottish, ska-lops for both.

I think I've heard sco-llops on TV to refer to the potato thing, but only by English or American people?

(I don't think I've ever heard Scottish people talk openly about scalloped potatoes. Obviously, I know they're a thing, but perhaps we just don't mention them up here? The Potato Preparation That Dare Not Speak Its Name?)

I think it has changed in my lifetime from scallop to scollop - basing this on Greg from masterchef who I'm sure used to say scallop and now says scollop.

Luckily now I live abroad where you can either call them coquilles or st jacques so I never have the dilemma.

Who mentioned edging on material?
I was just thinking about it when I was in the bathroom a minute ago.

And I can't sew, so I have no idea.

I actually say scollops.

However, there's a video about it where everyone says scAllop, and one guy says scOllop. His reasoning is that you don't cAll your mother, you cOll your mother.

That probably doesn't make any sense. I'll go and find the video.

I say scallops
I'm in Scotland and the battered fried slices of potato you get in the chip shop are called potato fritters

Video:

https://www.facebook.com/MaineShack/videos/645287009786977/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

I've only ever said scollops and I'm quite old.

Scallops for fish. Scollops for deep fried potatoes.

I'd call them potato fritters

Scollops for the shellfish. Scallops for the delish boiling hot potato dream.

At the chippy we used to go to growing up, they was always a huge queue so you'd put in your fish & chips order and get a scallop to eat outside before they'd shout you to say the rest of the food was done.

Oooh good question Dolly
I'd forgotten that one!
I think I say scOlloped edging ..... now the word scallop has lost all meaning and I've no idea how I pronounce anything 🤪

Scallop - I’m Scottish. We don’t have the potato thing in our chippies, so I’ve never used it in that sense. Scalloped potatoes are baked in cream and other stuff, also pronounced scallop.

I say scollops for both . When I was a kid , the only scollop I was aware of was a thick slice of potato dipped in batter and deep fried. They were available in all our local fish and chip shops .

Scollop for fish and edging.

Fried potatoes for potatoes 😜

What do you mean? I said they were “bit like a fish cake, but potato or mostly potato and some fish”

I don’t think there’s a divide like this…

some people use scallops, others use scollops for the fish.

think it’s the same for the other scallops.

the pronunciation is based on area of world you are in - not the actual thing

this.

I live by the sea North West where scallops of the fishy kind are a local delicacy - pronounced Scollops.

The potato ones here don't seem to exist.

When I was growing up in the Midlands the pototo ones were pronounced scallops. And I'd never heard of a fishy scallop. When I first ordered scallops here I was surprised to be presented with a plate of seafood...

It's pronounced scollops for the seafood. I think there is confusion with escalopes though, as in escalopes of veal, pronounced es-callops.
Never heard of the potato dish.