Are the AMericans correct in saying " kebob"

[MrKrabs]

for kebabs?
have been making them with ds3 adn he has watched TOO much Disney channel.

I've also seen this word spelt as 'kabab' so perhaps there are different spellings depending on the language in question?!

What do, say Turks, say?

Is American pronunciation ever correct

Hey, according to Wiki:

Kebab (also occasionally transliterated as kebap, kabab, kebob, kabob, kibob, kebhav, kephav)

I think they say kebab, not sure. If I see my neighbour today I'll ask her - she used to live there.

It's kebap on the continent.

Could it just be a pronunciation thing rather than a spelling thing. Remember Simon Cowell getting all cross when they kept referring to 'Ahba' rather than Abba on American Idol?

really
ahba
lol. no they say kebob

really
ahba
lol. no they say kebob look like Tour Guide Barbie does here

And yet the Barbie says scAllops and not scOllops...

ScAllop Kabobs...

Americans just make it all up.

LOl
any old hoo as they are talking. Its like Welsh imo - one VAST joke at the ENglish expense.
They make it up then snigger as the English get all inclusive about it.

Actually it's worse than that isn't it - it's

scAllop kabObs with tomAYtoes.

ROfl
then bung in some ERBS and put it all in a vaise

oh god yes erbs

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But i love their pronunciation - i lobve it annoying me
and cilantro and eggplant and all

Yes, the erbs bugs me too.

Can they not pronounce their "h's". Why drop the h? I'ts there for all to see.

kebob??

Tis like saying Craig as Creg.

'erbs doesn't bother me so much - we do it with honestly.

pmsl @ welsh being a vast joke at english expense

am american andlove these discissions . i've been here nearly 12 years and still say kebob, pahsta, yoh-ghurt, scone (long o). and i think i do say 'Hairy' for harry. i didn't realise I was wrong in my pronunciation until i moved here, hehe, and my FIL and friends kept laughing at me.

however, i do say tomahto, herbs, mum (i hate the word 'mom' but do call mine that). I'm also training myself to say water instead of 'wadder' which is a tough one.

i can see how our accent would annoy though, when i go back to visit and everyone's speaking in a twang, i find it very grating. not sure I'd like to adopt the Yorkshire accent, though, which is where i live. that's a whole other language, eebygum.

god oyu are gracious.
it must sound odd when you say water?
Can non theatrical americans do English accents well?

gwynneth does a good one, Renee Z's is OTT, and my US friends think Madonna has a british accent (go figure)...

my accent is definitely american (most people tell me they like it) but I've been told i sound very posh when i say 'to-mahh-to' and (now)'wah-tah'. i'm rahhthahh proud of that.