It is not a sodding 'Expresso'

[TheDevilWearsPrimark]

Oh this makes me irrationally angry.

Perhaps best I stick to Valpollysella

at IsThat. Me too!

Goodness, how very judgemental you all are! It's not as though people are incorrectly pronouncing these things purposefully to annoy you, I'm sure if most of them realised they were saying it wrong, and knew the correct pronunciation they would use it.

For example I didn't know that panini was wrong, must have been unintentionally bugging the hell out of people for years!

Judgey!! Mumsnet!! How very dare you!!

I've just realised perversley it does annoy me when people pronounce Chorizo properly.

Maybe because it's always a lame attempt at the spanish Z and just sounds silly

I used to work in a pub/cafe place years ago and we had more than one person ordering a 'cup of chino'. It was a crap place to work but that used to make my day especially when it was the snotty woman from the Clarins counter in the nearby House of Fraser.
And don't get me started on my MIL's wilful pronounciation of Chardonnay with the emphasise on the donnay.

I used to call it expresso until my workplace laughed at me. I also say 'lartay', and have been corrected on that too (albeit more subtly!) but i keep forgetting!

Had no idea about bruchetta thingy. i've noticed a creeping correction of chorizo about amongst certain types too.

One that I notice however is korma. it's actually a very subtle kooruma. there's others too of that ilk, but indian food doesn't seem to hold quite so much snob value in most quarters.

talking fox - that's an interesting point, we don't get at all bothered about pronounciation when it comes to Indian food. I wonder if it's because Indian food is better established, and became so back when nobody would have been bothered about pronouncing foreign words correctly?

I think it's because not as many people go on holiday to the Punjab as do to Italy/Spain.

One thing I have noticed about Indian menus, though, is that the spellings of things from menu to menu are incredibly various, so perhaps that's why.

But I would like to pronounce everything properly, not just European stuff.

On the other hand, when newsreaders pronounce foreign cities with the matching accent, it sounds pretentious and makes me come over all Kingsley Amis. So double standards aplenty.

"LonjerAAAY" for Lingerie.

Boy I hate that.

how do you pronounce chorizo then?

something between a soft s and th sound.

not choreetzo

not choreetho

But we all do odd things and pronounce some as poncy Euros and others as Brits abroad.

I quitelike it that way

I do very throaty spitty chorizo thing and friend annoys me with her choreeeeezo pronounciation.

I drink double expresso con panna and will now ask for esspressiio to be extra annoying.

My fav Foringlish was Ta-Ma-Sla-Ta which I overheard in Waitrose - unsurprisingly

I love this thread. It reminds me of working at GLR at the time of Pinochet's brief arrest in Britain.

One presenter (oh, all right, it was a twat called Jeremy Nicholas) interrupted every guest who described him as the 'former Chillyan dictator' to point out that the correct pronunciation was 'Chilayun'.

My, how we all admired his news sense and grasp of priorities.

Wonder where he is now?

Oops!

Perhaps all offenders should be banned from Starbucks for life and made to go and drink a limp cup of instant Mellow Birds from the local greasy spoon.....

Why is it not OK to pronounce foreign words that have become part of the English language with an English accent.

You are all being pretentious!

Expresso aint in the OED

Espresso is.

Oh my God - you're not seriously suggesting people go around pronouncing it ree-o-ccccccccchhhhhhha, coughing out a phlegm ball in the process?!

Tryharder
not all surely?

I'm half Italian and I really couldn't give a shit if people don't pronounce things correctly. My mum (English) goes nuts if she hears anyone say 'expresso'.

Actually, I suppose I cringe a bit if people use a hard G sound when saying Tagliatelle.

yanbu...... and you could keep going with panini and biscotti. They're plural. It would be like saying "I'll have a sandwiches and a biscuits". Drives me insane!

choreetho for chorizo is not too bad...
choritso definitely not fine

judgy? oh yeah baby

Haven't read the whole thread but I am with you on this one.

AND "PIN number"

No, the N IS number you do not need to repeat the word number.

Whenever I see it on TV my DH sees me visibly tense.

Yes. Or bagutter. As I have seen on a meny around here.

Which is funny in norwegian as GUTTER is boys. plural. so, BABOYS. Who would eat that?