how do you pronounce chorizo?

[brimfull]

tia

Ponders - ? I don't pronounce I choritso, I don't pronounce it choritso

shor ee tho ('tho' to rhyme with 'snow')

Or so my v good friend, who is Catalan, assures me!

tcho-ree-zoe

OR

tcho-ree-thoe

Oh I'm so sorry Tinker, don't you pronounce it choritso?

(misunderstood your chef/mother post, sorry )

Oooh yes, see-a-batter drives me crazy too. Another is tag-lee-a-telly instead of tally-a-telly...

My Mexican friend always corrects my English friend (who thinks he can speak Spanish cos he once went travelling in Peru) when he says chor-eeth-oh.

i know it is choreetho but would feel like a right nob lisping in teh butchers so i say choritzo.

choreetho

SlackSally, American Spanish speakers think that Spanish Spanish speakers sound ridiculous. I heard a Spanish guy trying to order 2 beers in Guatemala only to have the entire staff roaring with laughter and mimicing his lisp.

Aargh - my dad dribves me mental by producing it is if is's an Italian word i.e. 'kor-eets -oh'.

WHY would you do that when it is absolutely, 100%, no wiggle room, a Spanish word?

I mean, fair enough you might pronouce it like an English word if you're English. But WHY like a word that is neither the language the word comes from, or the language you speak?

GAH!