To ask DP to pronounce it properly when we go out?

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DP always pronounces "Fajita" exactly how its spelt. I.E. faJita.

I have told him its pronounced "Fa he ta" but he says he's just "used" to saying it wrong now and continues to do so.

However, at weekend we are going to Chiquitos and he intends to order fajitas. I asked him to at least pronounce it properly in there because its embarrassing if he says it wrong in there. He says I'm being stuck up and he'll just say it how he normally does.

Am I being stuck up or would it embarrass you too?

Lol Acanthus, are you trying to start a fight??

prosecco V prosciutto passion?

OP, that would wind me up too, but I am a pedant, both personally and professionally.

We say pie-ayah and choritho, but that could be something to do with our Spanish relatives and they way they feed us when we visit. Expresso is one that really winds me up, because there is no 'x' in it. It's espresso.

Perhaps this thread should be pedants' corner

Professionally curly? Being paid for being a pedant sounds interesting, what do you do if you don't mind me being nosy asking?

Your Highness, the pedants are revolting

but but, why would you continue doing it wrong after someone has told you the right way???

Thanks Curly Casper!!

I am really trying to remember espresso NOT expresso!

It's a sort of inverted snobbery to refuse to pronounce words the 'right' way. Besides, just how sure are you that you are pronouncing them the right way?

I used to work with some people who were the most awful food snobs. They insisted on pronouncing food names 'correctly', with the 'authentic' accent and rhythm.

But for someone (me) who grew up on Eastern Mediterranean food, surrounded by people who spoke the relevant languages, it was positively painful, cringe-worthily so, to hear my colleagues mangling the names of the foods.

So say the name of the food, get as close to it as you can, in your own accent, and accept that there is no real right or wrong way to pronounce a word that is not in your language.

oh well you learn something new everyday I always thought it was "fa-gee-tas"

oh and how do you proncounce Jalapeno's then??

agentzigzag I currently have a more general editorial role, but I spent several years as a sub-editor on a daily newspaper. It's the perfect job for a pedant. You spend all day, every day, correcting other people's copy. And you get a severe roasting from the boss, plus some serious piss-taking from colleagues, if you get even the tiniest thing wrong. Problem is, it spills over into everyday life. If I could walk around with a big, fat, red marker pen and fix pub menus and shop signs I would

I'm in my element having today discovered Pedants' Corner here on MN.

Halapeenyos is the closest I can get without going into too much detail awasailing

I thought it was 'ha la pen yo', although our local pizza staff refers to them as 'jaleenos', wtf?

No hablo español con fluidez or something.

different food item here but love the fact my sister cannot say viennese whirls and calls them vietnamese whirls instead, which i find harder to say atually.

Ha la pain yos. Sort of. Spanish J is kind of a kch back of the throat 'h' sound, and the n should have a 'tilde' (doesn't exist on our keyboards) which is a squiggle above it, which denotes it is pronounced 'ny' rather than 'n'.

I am linguistically minded and like to pronounce things correctly as far as possible, although I do speak spanish anyway [show off emoticon]

curlycasper my FIL does do exactly that.

He reads the Daily Telegraph with a highlighter pen, correcting any mistakes.

He also points out mistakes on menus and signs.

I find that far more embarrassing than if it he were to refer to them as Fajitas

YANBU

I get royally annoyed with DH for saying "Ma-g-nolia" (pronouncing the "g" and "Ta-g-liatelli". He can't see anything wrong with it!!! I ask him why doesn't he say "bolo-g-nese", he says that this is different.

I can't believe how much he gets to me with this, but then I am a quarter Italian and it's one of my mother tongues

oh, yes, expresso is another one, thank you curly

i used to love working in a wine shop and hearing the snobs come in and ask for moet (pronouncing it mo-eh) in their best french accent or correcting people if they pronounced it "mo-ette" which is actually much closer to the correct pronunciation.

bigbadmummy LOL at your FIL. I don't actually tell people they are wrong. But like the idea of being able to be a phantom grammar corrector. I'd be far too to actually do anything about it in public!

Thanks gobsmacked

this reminds me of when my DH asked for a "lemon meringay" in a cafe once

It's not MaGnolia?

YANBU.

Or rather YABU, but so am I, so YANBU.

My DP is French and he drives me fucking mental on a daily basis- the phrase du jour is 'shitting my boots' to denote fear.

I have tried to explain. It does no good.

It's pronounced FAJ-IT-ASS, surely everyone knows that?

What's wrong with pronouncing it "ma-g-nolia"?