AIBU to hate people who pronounce Chile "Chil-AY" and Kenya "KEEENyar"

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you know, I just don't care if it's right it just sounds dreadful and a great trumpeting of Arse.

Apparently sorbet does not have a silent 't'.

CarryOn.

chaostruly lol at 'carry on'

my bloody mother says Keeeeeeen-ya

and she says it with such a challenging gleeful glare in her eye..desperate for someone to challenge her.

I found something on another website that says that it used to be Keenyer but after independence when the new president took over his name was Kenyatta and he (apparently( changed the pronunciation them.

I think I've heard people (Zimbabweans) pronounced it both ways.

Another good one that even the locals can't agree on is Tanzania........

Acshully if you're going to say it like the natives its more of a Chil-eh...

How is quinoa pronounced if not keen-wah?

I often pronounce chorizo with a hard c around one of my friends just to wind her up. She always manages to come back with another sentence containing chorizo just so she can pronounce it properly in a 'ner-ner-na-ner-ner' way. She hasn't disappointed me yet!

My dad sometimes pronounces it keenyar and when I asked why said what toccata said about Kenyatta.

Wonder if it is a generation thing becasuse my dad says Keeenyar. He's 73. I find it very annoying.

Not sure how he pronunces chile - not sure the country has ever come up on converstion I have had with him

There are other examples of places he prounances different but I just cant think of them now - i'll try to remember some and post them later.

He also calls Zimbabwe - Rhodesia even though the name changed decades ago.

I've heard Africans call it Keeen-ya but think it sounds somehow odd!!

When I was at school we were taught to pronounce Haiti as High-eeeteee, then when disaster struck and they had the quake all over the news it was Hate-eee

Whats the right way ??? ( must be Hate-eeee if the BBC say it like that )

Never heard anyone say they are going to Chill-ay but know plenty of people who have been to Ma-jor-ca whereas I trump loudly Ma-yor-ca !!!

Mexicans say 'Meh heee co'

Oh and my Mom pronounces Cuba as Cooo-ba. I twitch every time she does it. In fact it's making me twitch now...

its like how some people pronounce their name as farquar and its actually spelt as smith!!!!!!

Lots of people over 70 pronounce it Keeen-ya. What's wrong with that?

But the most annoying thing is people who talk about new-clue-ar instead of nuclear...

And who could forget East Angular...?

My mum pronnonces bewildered as be-wild-ered instead of be-will-dered and it sets my teeth on edge every time.

I've got some classics from a woman at work but they've all gone for the moment, I'll post them when I think of them

brightyoungthing - I'd have actually thought more "hay-shee" - but then that's just how the locals (might) pronounce it. e.g., we don't go around talking about Paree do we?

My xp who is Portuguese used to say ch-o-ri-so, so that's how I say it now.

Not that I'm picking on her but my mum calls it cho-ritz-oh or cho-reeeetz-oh depending on how she's feeling

I thought you were allowed to say 'paree' as long as it was proceeded by 'gay' !!!!

I just remebered my mum (OK I'm picking on her) says gat-ux for gateaux !!!

Re Haiti I guess as the local dialect in based on French it should be Hah-ee-tee shouldn't it?

Worse is when people knowingly pronounce something inaccurately.
I know a girl who for some bizarre reason insisted on pronouncing gyoza the Spanish way (as in guy-oh-tha).
Group of friends and I got so fed up with it that we asked a waitress at a Japanese restaurant what the actual pronunciation was. She told us it was ghee-oza (as we all knew) so we turned round to deluded friend in triumph.
Her response? She looked right at the waitress and asked if she could order some 'guy-oh-thas'.

anonacfr - but you wouldn't pronounce the "ai" found in Calais as "ah-ee" would you?

Chilay is a bit poncetastic - but how do you say Chilean? Chilly-ann sounds wrong, so i do say Chil-ay-ann. But not Chilay. Is that ok?

Yes but there is a double dot (whatever it's called) on the French spelling- which would be pronounced Ha-yee. In fact if you look on Wikipedia it says the French Creole spelling is Ayiti.

How is that for pompous/

Never heard anyone say Chil-ay.

don't think I have ever heard a young person say Keen-yar.

its age innit