There is no such thing as "soya sauce"

[EphraimWaite]

Go to your cupboards, folks. Take down the bottle. Give that three letter word a good ol' read. Soy. It's "soy sauce". Please stop torturing me.

Interesting.... So either no one is as enraged by this as I am or you all checked your cupboards, realised I'm right, and don't want to talk about it.

I get enraged too-especially when tv chefs/nutritionists do it. Should know better!

That and 'expresso' coffee (Mr Oliver!) drive me nuts.

I've never heard it called "soya sauce".....

Me neither!

It's an alternative name for it, not wrong. I don't think it's used so much these days though, so perhaps it will drop out of use completely eventually.

I hear you.

Expresso though. That's the worst!

As far as I know, soya sauce is an accepted alternative in British English. Sounds really wrong though.

While we are on the condiment subject...The stuff in chip shops isn't vinegar, it's very diluted acetic acid, chip shops don't care though as they still call it vinegar.

This is why you can never "get vinegar that tastes like fish and chip shop vinegar"

My DM always called it soya sauce. I was confused for years as a child, thinking it must be some sort of Chinese pronunciation thing

Would you like some vinegarette with your salad?

Smeaton what about people putting their PIN numbers in when they use the ATM machine? 😫

Waitrose sell soya sauce

www.waitrose.com/shop/DisplayProductFlyout?productId=91790&source=sho_&utm_source=google%2Bshopping&utm_medium=organic%2Bgs&utm_campaign=google%2Bshopping&gclid=COqnwK2k1NMCFQISGwodEN4Liw&gclsrc=aw.ds&dclid=CLHHxq2k1NMCFQsE0wodCnEDfA

JustAnotherSilentOldNumber
Specifically chip shop vinegar is called non-brewed condiment and is illegal to call or represent as vinegar, no one cares though.

Interesting article about the etymology

www.soyinfocenter.com/HSS/soy_sauce1.php

Apparently soy is a made up word anyway.

I don't get the PIN code one... please put me out of my stupidity misery?

Oh no wait is it because N means number and M means machine. I feel silly now.

sam PIN (personal identification number) Number.

"soya sauce" and "soya milk" annoy me, but I've figured it's just a difference between British and American terms and it doesn't really bother me, it's just different. There is no such thing as "soya" anything in the US. It's all simply soy.

"PIN Number" drives me bonkers though. "Personal Identification Number Number". The N in PIN is for number. It doesn't need to be said again.

My mother says "Expresso". It gives my sister and I rage. I think mom says it on purpose now just to push our buttons.

I hate 'paninis'

Samoan, PIN code is less redundant than PIN number.

Personal Identification Number code
Personal Identification Number number...grates my nerves.

How about origami paper?

Oh yeah, I cringe for those who can't translate Japanese words.