It is not a sodding 'Expresso'

[TheDevilWearsPrimark]

Oh this makes me irrationally angry.

ooh another oone
compact disc

no its comPACT

a compact is like make up

YANBU
My friend worked in a coffee shop and he always wanted to tell people that if they couldn't say it, they couldn't have it.

Not that you say 'of'

comPACT is the verb isnt it?

Newsreaders make my teeth itch when they desperately try to introduce received pronunciation to the names of countries, e.g. Parkistarn and Arfgarnistarn. It sounds both ridiculous, contrived and poncey and 'I must lengthen my a's at any cost' and I KNOW it's because I'm northern, but even so. Bonkers.

And this is precisely why I point to stuff on menus in case some judgemental ponce is lurking, ready to pounce on my mangled pronunciation.

adn why do they say glazgow ( short a) even if all RP

If it's a forrin word, we can say it however we want. It's not a matter for the police.

I would feel like a right tit saying choreetho.

god i cant imagine not syaing choreetho

I worked in a pub when I was a student and some poor bugger asked for a Chicken Keev.

I'm not asking for a heavily accented pronunciation and obviously I just smiled and said certainly, but such things make one sound a little, er, 'off the pace'. It's odd really, as I doubt they even eat Chicken Kiev in Kiev nowadays, it's a Findus invention.

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also 'crassonts' grrrrr

And the plural of cappuccino is CAPPUCCINI FFS.

but sometimes pronouncing words with a foreign accent is jusdt poncey and sounds ridiculous.

Saying espresso correctly doesn't mean having to use a foreigh pronounciation though does it? Same with croissant. So there is a difference.

koi carp...koi is just the japanese word for carp
it's like saying carp carp

peyougeot for peugeot

I have never heard anyone say choreetho. ALthough the posh birds in my book group might, and I'm seeing them tonight.

Do you all say Barthelona?

YABU

tout le mange my dear tout le mange

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and if the rather hungover chap who was ordering food in the mountain cafe in Thollon Les Memises on NY Day is reading this........Shouting in English doesn't make the frenchman serving you any more likely to understand you than when you said it more quietly . FFS. Twas like an episode from It Ain't Half Hot Mum. And the rude b*stard didn't even have the good manners to thank me when I stepped in and ensured that he got 2 plates of pasta with sauce and 2 without that he was desperately trying to order.

Re: Barthelona - they don't say 'th' in that part of Spain, or in Andalucia, or (for instance) in Cuba

The Madrilenos do though.

lol @ lady. I mighta known

it would appear there are amy ways to pronounce chorizo:

Chorizo (Spanish pronunciation: [tʃoˈɾiθo]; Galician: Chourizo [tʃowˈɾiθo]; Portuguese: Chouriço [ʃoˈɾisu]; Catalan: Xoriço [ʃuˈɾisu]) is a term encompassing several types of pork sausage originating from the Iberian Peninsula. In English it is usually pronounced /tʃəˈriːzoʊ/, /tʃɵˈriːsoʊ/, or /tʃɵˈriːθoʊ/, but sometimes mispronounced /tʃɵˈriːtsoʊ/.

HTH

hmmm not a good look

try this website:

www.answers.com/topic/chorizo

can you type that in english please.

Now, how to pronounce &?/;

That really does have me stumped...