how do you pronounce chorizo?

[brimfull]

tia

chor ee zo

chor itz o

the first one I think!

chor-reeth-oh if you're going spanish or chor-its-oh without an accent.

Most people in UK: chor-IT-zo

How I think it should be: chor-EE-tho

How it probably is in Spain: [throaty noise like a rolled 'h']-or-EE-tho

chor-e-tho

is the ch bit as ch in charlie or hard as in christ

soft ch

Chor-eeth-oh

(notices MissisBoot put the same...)

ch like charlie

Why?

Tor-EETH-oh

DP says that's right so we follow his lead (speaks spanish)

All except Stepson who pronouces it Chur-ITS-ow in a loud londonish accent to piss him off.

dh pronounced it
ch-or eezo and was corrected by smug deli worker
who said
it is pronounced ch-or itso

neither was right

Another vote for chor-reeth-oh.

Why on earth do people say chor-its-oh?

But you hear chefs saying chor-its-oh. Having a mother who was a bit obssessive about pronouncing Spanish words correctly think I've always managed to get this one right

wiki

pron guide appears to say it's chor-eeso in American Spanish & chor-eetho in Spanish Spanish but that's if I've read the phonetic thing right (& I probably haven't )

HTH

(Molesworth, the itso may come from a confusion with Italian? Although that would need to be izzo, not just izo.)

But as far as I'm aware "z" is never pronounced "ts" in Spanish. It's either "th" or "s". Am happy to be corrected on that if I'm wrong!

tinker,

'Sometimes it is mispronounced as "choritso".'

Ponders, I always think that people are getting their Spanish and Italian confused when they say "choritso", although even then wouldn't it have to be spelled "chorizzo"?

Yes, it would

Hi I am 1/2 Spanish- it is pronounced choreetho. Never choritzo!

Lol @ Soupdragon

choreetho here and from spanish family here too

Almost as bad - when people say "see-a-batter" for ciabatta!

choreetho