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Post by Ozymandias Kane on Mar 29, 2020 11:24:20 GMT
Can you advise on other food based mispronunciations? Quinoa and scone spring to mind. Chorizo is always a tricky one. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39735870I favour Chuh-REE-tho Schedule (UK) ('shed') Schedule (USA) ('sked') enjoy |
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Post by MrTiddles on Mar 29, 2020 11:35:33 GMT
Oh, watched a bit of Rocket Man last night. Not for me, too much dancing in it. Musicals? Nah.
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Post by Sheep2 on Mar 29, 2020 11:36:26 GMT
Ah, Sunday's box, slumming it in the fetid mess left by Saturday. Morning everyone! There were empties all over the place. It looks like looters stormed the place after I went to bed about 9pm. A big group of them by the mess they made. |
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Post by Ozymandias Kane on Mar 29, 2020 11:36:36 GMT
Morning I've just found out that the shell-shaped pasta (conchiglie) is pronounced con-KEEL-yay. I've been pronouncing it wrong for years... Can you advise on other food based mispronunciations? Quinoa and scone spring to mind. Quinoa - (Keen waa) - quite shocked and amazed at this one, why can't they say it as they spell it! Scone - from my understanding if you are 'north of the water' as it were or up North, it is pronounced s c o n eand if you are 'daan saaf' - down South - it is pronounced s c o n (e), silent 'e' So remember all, enjoy your isolation and eat up all of your keen waa and con keel yay pasta and your scones with a nice cup of tea (T)! |
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Post by amipal on Mar 29, 2020 11:41:25 GMT
It appears to be snowing here. Anyone have that in "Apocalypse Bingo"?
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Post by MrTiddles on Mar 29, 2020 11:47:20 GMT
Anyone want their plums stamped on? Kane, I'm looking at you.
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Post by amipal on Mar 29, 2020 11:54:05 GMT
The trouble with pronouncing chorizo with a "th" is that you sound like Jamie Oliver.
And if you order it in a restaurant with a "th", they'll think you're a pratt.
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Post by dakylosaurus419 on Mar 29, 2020 12:02:48 GMT
OTTDM: Just gave 'The Lad' a SCART to RCA adaptor, 'cos I'm well generous (and have loads of the buggers). what on earth does the lad need a SCART to RCA adaptor for in this day and age? He's probably flogged it down the zoom pub already |
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Post by RollingEscargot on Mar 29, 2020 12:06:13 GMT
The trouble with pronouncing chorizo with a "th" is that you sound like Jamie Oliver. And if you order it in a restaurant with a "th", they'll think you're a pratt. But if you pronounce it with the double z sound as in pizza, like Gregg Wallace does, they'll think you think it's Italian, plus you will sound like Gregg Wallace. Also, it is sconn, not scoan. I assume the latter came about when people saw the e on the end and wrongly assumed it rhymed with phone. |
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Post by Felice Landry on Mar 29, 2020 12:08:41 GMT
Just don't eat Chorizo and you're good.
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Post by crankcaller on Mar 29, 2020 12:13:00 GMT
I also favour Chuh-REE-tho.
Ss-kaw-n
Just heard a song on the radio and thought for a minute it was end of days as I was listening to Radiohead and enjoying it. Turns out it was Atoms for Peace. Phew!
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Post by Ozymandias Kane on Mar 29, 2020 12:20:47 GMT
Anyone want their plums stamped on? Kane, I'm looking at you. I'm self isolating, the shotgun's tied to the door handle and I have very large stick near by. So if *anyone should try to stamp on my plums (is that a euphemism)?! I'm ready *this means you!  |
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Post by Ozymandias Kane on Mar 29, 2020 12:28:02 GMT
The trouble with pronouncing chorizo with a "th" is that you sound like Jamie Oliver. And if you order it in a restaurant with a "th", they'll think you're a pratt. But if you pronounce it with the double z sound as in pizza, like Gregg Wallace does, they'll think you think it's Italian, plus you will sound like Gregg Wallace. Also, it is sconn, not scoan. I assume the latter came about when people saw the e on the end and wrongly assumed it rhymed with phone. I gather you live up North then?! scone - scoan,: London and the south, there's a map you can look at online that shows the areas of pronunciation. wiki also has a pretty good write up on it. |
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Post by Sheep2 on Mar 29, 2020 12:44:35 GMT
I like to vary the pronunciation.
Skon to southerners
Skoan to Northerners.
I can never settle on bath/barth either
My favourite is traffic islands. People outside Brum call them roundabouts, which is ok if you don't know the word island I suppose.
They get very confused by directions. Turn left at the second island. Particularly if it should have been right.
It does not help that wherever I go people ask me for directions. Berlin, Paris, Lille Bruges, London, Edinburgh. Maybe I look like I know where I am or something. I am pretty good at saying in French 'i do not live here, and my French is not very good. Do you speak English?' Fluent even. It gets you funny looks in Edinburgh though.
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Post by The Curry Pimp on Mar 29, 2020 12:55:32 GMT
The trouble with pronouncing chorizo with a "th" is that you sound like Jamie Oliver. And if you order it in a restaurant with a "th", they'll think you're a pratt. But if you pronounce it with the double z sound as in pizza, like Gregg Wallace does, they'll think you think it's Italian, plus you will sound like Gregg Wallace. Also, it is sconn, not scoan. I assume the latter came about when people saw the e on the end and wrongly assumed it rhymed with phone. Stone of scone is pronounced scoon. Scotch inconsitency there, to no one's great surprise I might add. |
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Post by tenthenemy on Mar 29, 2020 13:31:15 GMT
The Scots are well known for their inconsitency, as they call it in the ancient Gaelic tongue.
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Post by RollingEscargot on Mar 29, 2020 13:32:20 GMT
Yes but the stone of scone is not, iirc, a scone.
My granny used to fry scones as part of a fry up. Top banana.
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Post by Felice Landry on Mar 29, 2020 13:43:17 GMT
Homemade meatloaf and mash for dinner today and perhaps a small glass of red wine.
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Post by Destry on Mar 29, 2020 13:50:31 GMT
Which one of you was this?
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Post by tenthenemy on Mar 29, 2020 14:00:47 GMT
I say skonn and keen-wah and I like to make everyone feel inadequate by pronouncing chorizo in a hearty German, throat-clearing kind of way, not because it's anywhere close to the Spanish pronunciation but because I can and they can't:
khor-ritz-tzo
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Post by amipal on Mar 29, 2020 14:03:06 GMT
But... a traffic island and a roundabout are two separate things...
I'm confused.
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Mar 29, 2020 14:33:29 GMT
I have decided to experiment with affordable whiskies from a different country each time and will begin with a House of Suntory Toki from Japan.
Not much time for games today, kids eating into my precious gaming window. That and hoovering because the cleaner is self - isolating.
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Post by amipal on Mar 29, 2020 14:46:19 GMT
For relaxing times, make it Suntory time.
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Post by Lurk McLurkface on Mar 29, 2020 14:53:07 GMT
@holbornlolz reports:
"Japanese Deputy Prime Minister calls WHO 'a bunch of cunts, with their tongues up the Communist Chinese Party arses"
Shenguin is the Japanese Deputy Prime Minister and I claim my five yen.
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Post by dakylosaurus419 on Mar 29, 2020 15:01:08 GMT
Who'd have thought our state sanctioned saviours in the apocalypse would be a brexit cunt suction magnate and Jamie fucking Oliver?
Spending your last days listening to Jamie Oliver back to back on the TV is one hell of a way to go.
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