To wonder why.. (brace yourself)

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Single cucumbers from the supermarket come wrapped in plastic.. but single courgettes don’t?

if you ask me.. courgettes have a slightly more fragile skin that cucumber.. so why the lack of protection?

Rizz-OH-tow I think

I’ve just googled, and the US pronunciation seems to be with a soft ‘s’ - ‘sot’, as opposed to the UK, which is like a ‘z’ (zed) - ‘zot’, the same as the Italian.

RisOHto. But they'd say pasta as pahsta, not parsta, as Americans tend to have rhotic accents

I would say ‘parsta’ the same as ‘pahsta’. Like ‘parsley’’ or ‘parson’, so barely sounding the ‘r’!

I would too in my accent, but you may get some faux-naive replies from people who would pronounce the r sound in "ar" saying "why have you put an r in pasta? I don't understaaand!".

I clearly spend too long hanging around in language-related threads! 😂🤓

It's "just deserts"

www.oed.com/dictionary/just-desert_n

I think that neither British nor American English pronounces a short 'a' sound exactly the same as Italian people do. So if you are trying to reproduce an Italian word like 'pasta', you hear it, and say it, it in the closest sound your accent can come up with. For British people, that tends to be shorter, and for Americans it's more like 'pahsta', and the Italian sound is actually somewhere in between the two.

It’s really interesting, though, if very difficult to convey pronunciation by means of the written word!

It is! The phonetic symbols in the dictionary are useful for that reason, as otherwise it's pretty subjective. I was on another thread recently trying to describe how to correctly pronounce "loch" 😂

Farrow and Ball now have a purple paint called Brinjal.

I was on another thread recently trying to describe how to correctly pronounce "loch" 😂

I tell English people if they can say Bach they can say loch.

I tell English people if they can say Bach they can say loch.

There's an 'if' in there though!

You can, but don't be surprised if people then reply to your tedious posts as they wish.🤷‍♀️

Yes, most people think the composer is pronounced "bark"!

You have another think coming if you think you have another thing coming

I don’t think ‘you have another thing coming’ is a thing. I think, if you think about it, ‘you have another think coming’ is the only thing which makes sense! Just to be clear 😁

well this appears to be somewhat derailed

Oh yes, sorry, I forgot it was all about cucumbers and courgettes!

Which is exactly what I was pointing out if you read it again

Oh dear, I don’t need to read it again. I thought you were entering into the good-humoured spirit of the thread. Many apologies. When I posted:

If you think it’s ‘just desserts’, you’ve got another thing coming!

it was a joke. I know full well that it’s deserts and think! It was just a lighthearted (or so I thought!) play on people’s varying understanding of certain words and phrases, as was the post of mine you quoted. I thought you were responding in the same vein, but evidently got it wrong! Mea culpa.

I don't think I've ever met anyone who admitted they thought that so I get annoyed at them happily saying Bach correctly (to show how educated they are) but then blithely saying lock instead of loch (because it's not important to pronounce Scots correctly). Same people get arsey about outwith.

I've managed to buy both in Durham, when I season. Acorn squash is one of those "why did I bother?" varieties, mind.

It’s a turnip isn’t it ? I agree - disappointing. Rutabaga sounds much more exotic !!

Rutabaga is swede. If you are English anyway.

Don't Scottish people call swedes turnips? (neeps)

But what do they call actual turnips?

They're also neeps but tbh I rarely see them, swedes are definitely the neep you'll see the most in the shops.