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...........

lo (as in lo-ng) and ch - quite hard almost like a k - but with a bit of a khhhh at the end

But Desi to be consistent with that rule, we would need to say Par-ee, afiTHionado (unless we were being Latin American), Los An-gghhhhe-eles, etc. One of my lecturers in uni used to say Guatemala as it is pronounced in Spanish even in English and it sounded quite odd.

aah, now loch I do know (half my family are Scottish) but I can't work out how to type it in my dear Gran's Dundee accent

I've always said gow-dah, and i've never heard any different.

This should have been posted in Pedants' Corner, lol.

Well I'd say Gaw-dah

Hmm, very difficult to describe how to say this properly.

Someone mentioned loch. Imagine the ch sound from loch as said by a Scottish person.

Then say

ch-ow-da

and Edam is A-dum. The A rhymes with hay and the dum is almost like dumb.

Van Gogh anyone? That one always makes me Pmsl when people start on their Van Go and all that

oh but Desi - I don't think I would be allowed in pedants corner

Ah, you're probably right, QoQ ... it being Pedants' Corner (note the apostrophe) and all ...

• you see if I'd have posted it in Pedants' Corner then I'd probably have been chased out by now

Well let me tell you, some of them are right bloody scary!

And a bit up themselves. You stay where you are love

I would say that horrible, tasteless, Dutch cheese with the yellowy-orange rind. And if I wanted Edam, I would ask for the horrible, tasteless, Dutch cheese with the red rind. All with a Dutch accent of course.

in dutch, definitely khow-dah

I say Gow-Dah.

It's goo-duh isn't it?

Cheese.

I say Gow-dah but live in the us where everyone says Goo-dah. Always makes me

It would be utterly poncey to go to the deli counter in Sainsbury's and ask for some 'kchhhooouuurg-ouda' unless you were actually Dutch. And the chance of the 12 year old behind the counter actually knowing what you were talking about unless you called it 'gow-da' are practically nil anyway.

I speak as somebody who lived in Holland and actually had to ask for the damned stuff in Dutch. [clears throat and goes accckkhhhhh in readiness]

The Dutch used the 'g' sound in words to test for spies during the war because it's so hard for non-natives to pronounce.

Van Gogh is most definitely more Van 'cghcghchgochgchgchg' than 'Van go'.

How did the policeman know the robber stole the painting?

He saw the Van go.

I realise that joke isn't funny. A 2nd grader told it to me.

[hands overrated a wet kipper]

Waits....

i say goodaa

asked my dutch friend today and from now on i shall be saying 'gow' da!

if anyon esaid goodah to me i would larf