Pronunciation of Scallops

[TheShellBeach]

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

Scollop for the battered potato slice! I don't eat fish so no idea how I'd pronounce the seafood one.

we call batter potato scallops klondikes

You are not alone - I am a Scollop Scot. Although the edging on fabric is definitely scallop, and another one who thought scalloped potatoes were akin to dauphinois.(sp?)
Am also guilty of Aldi being pronounced ‘Alldi’ 😳

Round our way, the deep fried battered mash potato thing like a fish cake (sometimes with a bit of fish but often just with parsley) is called a Savoury. A savoury what, I don’t know. The contents are a mystery.

I just looked in my Concise OED and the pronunciation is either scollops or scallops, it shows scollops first but both are correct. And that's for shellfish, sewing, and saucy potatoes!

You are not alone - I am a Scollop Scot. Although the edging on fabric is definitely scallop, and another one who thought scalloped potatoes were akin to dauphinois.(sp?)
Am also guilty of Aldi being pronounced ‘Alldi’ 😳

I've been sitting here trying to work out how I pronounce scalloped edge and I actually don't know. I seem to be verging towards scollop for that as well though and I say Al-di rather than All-di so we aren't twins for everything. 😂 Although we don't have an Aldi so I don't say that much either.

Is it just me, or has this word gone weird in everybody else's head now, too?

Ha, I'm the opposite and a Scallop Englander! I have never knowingly heard anyone say scollop.

I also say Alldi. I'm SE England.

Definitely me too! 🥴

This.

ScAllops for both here (Northern place that has a lot of Scottish influence if it makes a different)

The potato scallop things don't even exist in my part of Scotland at all - never seen them in any chippers round here.

Scollops, I'm from and live in NI but lived in south of England for many years in case that's a factor.

Also I've now looked at scallops and scollops written down so many times now that they both look and sound wrong.

Also also I could murder a plate of either scallops or scollops.

Scollop, whether for the bivalve, the shell edging of fabric, the dauphinois-alike creamy spud dish or the deep fried thing from the chippy.

I say scollop.

I've seen an episode of Come Dine with Me where the cheeky presenter was saying both in different sentences so no wonder there's confusion.

I say scallops because that's how it's spelt.

The potato dish is 'scalloped potatoes' and not 'scallops' so there's no confusion.

Don't you get fritters in the chip shop? Same thing

Ok I'm residing that 'potato scallops' and another separate dish that I'd never heard of. Is that what you mean OP? They look delicious

Potato scallops are incredible.

Cambridge dictionary which is my absolute bible says scollop first
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/scallop

Something like skålops. The local Japanese restaurant has the right idea with the potato ones - they sell them as potato tempura to avoid any 'is that a Northern thing?' disquiet from the locals.

chippers ?

Gawd, was that typo for chippy or a new word that we have to think about!

Scallops. Also in Scotland.

Think it's an accent thing.

Wrath is said wrath rather than wroth where I am too.

Scallops, and fritters from the chipper (Scottish)

Gosh - I was just having this thought earlier today....

My two penn'orth is: scollops for the fish and scalloped for the wavy edging.

The scallop shell is the symbol of St James of Compostela and I've always heard that referred to as a scallop too, though. Just convention I guess, rather than logical!