How do you pronounce Gouda...............

[TheQueenOfQuotes]

???? Saw something (can't remember for the life of me what it was now) on TV last night where it was said and DH and I both thought it was said wrong...........

Howdah.

How-dah (I think)

but I could be wrong!

I say it Goooda

I say it Goooda

ooops. I dunno,

it was the Mighty Boosh trail - ask Hippipotami !

sure tis how-dah

thank you MAS - it was that trailer.....at least that's one question answered......just need to get a definitive answer on the pronunciation now LOL

really? howdah?

I call it g-ow-da ow as in miaow.

I'm not going to risk calling it howdah in my local supermarket.

here

I remember thinking, is that how you pronounce it ?

it's not howdah at all then, tissy?

In fact, I seem to say it rather tlike the actual Dutch. How clever of me.

i change my mind on this all the time!

DH and I both pronounce it Gow-dah........and just looked at each oddly when they said Gooo-dah - it just sounded so wrong!!!

that site says you can say goo-da (as i do) or you can say kh(h)owda like the dutch do. so either is ok.

English-speaking countries: most people say Goo-Da

Dutch: How-dah (well, that's as close as a non-Dutch speaker could get I reckon!)

Gow-dah, and I used to work in a posh cheese shop

agree with Cloud atlas.

Gow-dah with a more gluttural g, almost like an h.

ceratinly not Goo- da.

It is pronounced: Ghhow-da (the ghh as in aghhh in the back of the throat).

I pronounce it Gow-dah despite realising that it should be more like How-dah (with the gutteral sound at the beginning) -I think I'd get funny looks at the cheeses counter if I did that

I've never heard it pronounced Goo-dah by anyone , English or otherwise.

I don't care if "Goo-da" is how "English" speaking countries say it - it just sounds wrong LOL.

I mean we don't say

Cayf - for Cafe do we - .......

I've never heard anyone say Goo-da. Do people really say that?

You pronounce it how the Dutch pronounce it. Anything else would be rude. It's ^Gow'-da with with the 'G' sounding like it's scraping through gravel.

If I was showing off, I would say Ghhhhh-ow-da in the Dutch style (and still get it wrong as I would be adapting a Spanish Ghhhhh to do the first bit, and inevitably the 'ow' would not be precisely correct).

On a daily basis I would say 'Gow-da'.

When faced with someone who didn't know what I meant, I would say 'Goo-da'.

Now, anyone for how to pronounce loch correctly in English?!

lol at "numpties" -I love that word!