Bruschetta - please help me

[MistsandMellowMilady]

I like it very much so I'm frequently in a quandary.

I say, "Brus-ketta" and then the waiting staff always correct me with "Bru-shetta" whilst sneering.

Have tried explaining that the "ch" sounds like a hard "k" in Italian as in "Chianti". Then they probably go and spit in my food

Today a waitress kept on and on saying she didn't understand what I wanted to eat until I had to explain and when I used the Chianti example she didn't know what it was. Oh and then she said she was dyslexic (despite telling DH she was at University training to be a teacher) so I felt really awful!

Pedants, what do you do?

Do you use the wrong pronunciation initially and risk scorn or pronounce it correctly and chance being "corrected"?

Sorry for crashing your board with my shite grammar btw

Well I am drinking Merlot ce soir, personally.

Or should that be, Mer-low.

Gri-gi-o

Not Gri -geeee- o

I think I can guess which one that might have been. Name begin with I?

oo interesting Val - regional variation!

In that case I bow to your superior regional knowledge.

I mistakenly thought you were distinguishing between the French soft G and the English soft G and mistaking one for tother. If that makes sense.

I have known people vehemently insist that George in English is pronounced with a hard G - when what they mean is it's pronounced with a soft G, but the French kind of G.

Right, let me know what you want to know how to pronounce and I'll give you the proper Iti way...

sorry, that should have read "but not the French kind of G."

Arg, need to stop pedanting (and drinking Mer-low) and go to bed.

There must be a lot of regional variations but Italian friend has just sent a text and confirmed she has never heard it with a hard g (she's lived all over Italy). I've also just suffered a lecture on g followed by i and e in Italian. She's a languages lecturer.... I don't even speak Italian. I don't even drink alcohol.

Is Pinot Grigio even nice?

Lol - let's just order Muscadet and have done

[really really really going to bed now]

SoH.

Just goes to show how varied language can be. Lived there for 4 years and never heard it with a soft G

There's SO many variations that I know of...varying from one village to the next. The dialects vary massively, even 5 miles down the road

Yes, Pinot Grigio is nice! If you are not drinking champagne it one of the few white wines worth bothering with. (I am the oracle on these things doncha know)

But my favourite Italian is Gavi di Gavi. Can't beat a Cortese grape imho.

No fellatio it was T and D the pair that have morphed into each other.

No!!! I know who the self-obsessed ones are, who was the one stressing? ID?

I might go to the PTA meeting in a couple of weeks and offer up my soul for their entertainment. I could infiltrate the mafia and feed information back to you. What do you think?

(disgraceful threadjacking again )

No LR was stressing Id is far too composed for that.

Good luck if you go.........is all I'm saying. I have a couple of spies in the camp to get my info :o

Of course - you don't need me! I loosely volunteered to join a while ago but I'm hoping they've forgotten. If I go I'm sure I'll live to regret it. Don't let me!

I seriously wouldn't! Imagine getting roped into the Christmas bazaar? < vom>

Little Red Dragon I suppose I found it strange that someone who has difficulties with the written word would want to go into a field where there is so much emphasis on it. But then she could have been training to be a P.E teacher for all I know.

I felt awful because I feel sorry for people who are dyslexic and there was I confusing the poor girl by wittering on about language

Lesson learned.

I did wonder a bit, Mists. If you don't mind me saying, it's a bit annoying that you assume she couldn't get round the dyslexia when she's teaching. I'm doing a PhD in English literature, and I'm a long way from the only dyslexic to do that.

I know this thread is jokey but I try to pick up on that sort of comment when I see it, because lots of dyslexics do work with the written word.

That's fair enough and it's the sort of thing that does confuse me because my sister was diagnosed in the eighties with dyslexia but really she just isn't academic in the slightest and doesn't enjoy reading or writing. Some people don't, her strengths and interests lay elsewhere.

I've started to learn a bit more about it from Mumsnet.

I'd like to think that my son will be able to get round his autism in the future and be able to do something he enjoys at a high level as you are. Sorry.

No, don't be sorry! I just think it's important to say what I said, because otherwise dyslexic people end up feeling they 'can't' go into certain jobs/do certain things. I always hope that if I say I know people who do, maybe someone or someone's child will feel better able to pursue what they want instead of feeling it couldn't possibly be for them.

I hope your son gets to do something he enjoys too - it's what we all want, isn't it?