Poker Dots.

[Pieceofpurplesky]

Driving me mad all over the internet - women in their poker dot dresses.
Polka. It's POLKA.
Rant over.

Are you winding us up @BootMaker ? Of course polka has an L sound in it! And the o is the same o sound as in "on", not "oh"

And I agree with you @PleasantPedant about crutch.

I’m sure it would not have been noticed, the l is very subtle x

I wear polka dots regardless of fashion.

No need to cringe. Polka is largely pronounced poker in UK English.

Poker dots.

Absolutely not! There's no L in polka. Don't be ridiculous.

Poh-ka.

Poh-ka dots.

Not pol-ka dots.

I'd accede poh-kuhr.

No L.

We definitely pronounce the L in polka in Northern Ireland. And the o sounds like "oh"
I'm going to make a very general assumption that it's the same in Scotland.

Ever heard of such a thing as regional accents @BootMaker? Surely if one is bothered enough about spelling / grammar etc to consider themselves a pedant then they are aware of this ?

Interestingly a quick google tells me that poh-kah is a from some American states.

In the 80s it was definitely polka! Strawberry Switchblade anyone!

Yes, loved Strawberry Switchblade and also dancing a polka, though I haven't really got the energy for them these days. I have never heard anyone call either the dance or the dots "poker" but as @Shinyhappyapple says, in some accents, people might do 😊

I read on here today about a ‘Jackal and Hyde’ personality.

Kate Princess of Middleton wore a poLka dot skirt yesterday - she must be on here and sending us a sign! Hi Kate!!

Yes, I'm in Esme's age group, I guess, and we said 'crutch' without thinking there was anything wrong with it and so did my Mum, born 1916, and her cousins. They all sewed so used sewing terms.

How many counties of England have you investigated to see how they pronounce the word which is written 'polka'?

No it's not, what are you on about

Polka, spelt polka, pronounced polka

We once had a party dance called the Bluebell Polka. One of the teachers wrote on the party programme, "Bluebell Poker" 🙄

Even the Oxford and Cambridge dictionaries state it's pronounced POLKA

The only word pronounced poker in UK English is….poker! The l in polka is not silent.

I'd pronounce polka dots differently to polka dance.

I pronounce the l in polka dot. I'm from the Southern US. Lots of people in the US don't pronounce the l. They might misspell it as "poka" if they had never seen it written.

I assume all these "poker" folks are non-rhotic speakers.

Polka. I say it like that.

There literally is an L in polka. It’s there - in the middle. Polka and poker are pronounced very differently.

bootmaker must be on a wind up.