How do you pronounce the word Praline?

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How do you pronounce the word praline, as in posh, nutty chocolate?

1. Praw-leen
2. Pray-line
3. Prah-leen?

3 different people in our family say it 3 different ways- Who is right?!

Prah-leen

3

1. It's french innit?

3

3

1. Yum.

3

It's a mumsnet unanimous verdict! Hooray! I win :-) Thank you all so much [rubs hands with glee!]

Well I have always said Prah-lean, but my (properly posh) MIL says pray-lean.

prowline

prah leen

The French way "prah leen"

If it's a burnt sugar candy studded with pecans, then it's a "prah lean."

If it's a fancy bite of chocolate then maybe a pray-line.

I am dead certain about the first (and if anyone wants my grandma's recipe, I'll share.) not quite so sure about the last though.

I say Pray-lean - whoops, is that terrible wrong?

DuelingFanjo so do I! I like to think we are exclusively right.

Pray-lean

Americans use 2. I have never heard 1.

Pra-leen-ay
There is an acute accent on the final e

Americans use 2

Not in New Orleans. I'm American. I have lived in New Orleans, the land of pralines in the US, where the correct pronunciation is prah-lean so that is how I pronounce it.

Atomic, there's no apostrophe.

How does everyone pronounce "nougat"?

My common family have always sayd "nuggat", but I've recently heard "Noogah".

1. I have never heard 1.

Prah-leen and Noogah.
There is an acute accent on the last letter of praline only when it is an adjective.

Yy to the version with the accent being an adjective - du chocolat praliné - 'pralined' chocolate.

Grr - why don't accents work on the MN app?!

Pray leen