When they became widespread, the name became poncey (imo) and they were called bagels, pronounced 'bay-gawls'.
I have never been able to buy one away from home (unless in a supermarket or if I point at it!), as I absolutely cannot bring myself to pronounce it the 'new' way, and every time I've said beigal, they've looked at me as if I'm from the Moon. I'd rather go without than speak oddly.
It's 'nuggut' to me. I heard a friend refer to it as 'noo-gahh' once and I couldn't help but laugh, she's quite rough, I thought she was putting on some daft accent. But no, she just says it that way!
and yog-ert, rather than yo-gurt.
Croissant is 'cwassunt' to me... you have to be careful when typing that
and pot pourri was always 'pot pure-y', I only found out recently that I say it funny
Further to Nestle changing their own pronunciation from Nessels to Ness-lay, Hyundai have done something similar. It used to be a sort of "yun" sound, but with a "h" on the front, as a two syllable word, hyun-die. Now it's Hy-Un-Die.
scone,not scon
bath, not barth (for both the place and the thing you wash in)
tort-us
neither bay-gel nor bie-gel - I can't stand the tasteless rubbish
it used to be nugget, but over the years I appeared to have gentrified into saying noo-gah
parkay
nessels
Does anyone remember the time in the seventies when there was a TV commercial which seemed to be trying to introduce a new pronunciation of the word "margarine" with the G pronounced as it is in the word "magazine", rather than as a J ?
Thankfully nothing came of that and everyone I know still calls it marjarine.
Does anyone remember the time in the seventies when there was a TV commercial which seemed to be trying to introduce a new pronunciation of the word "margarine" with the G pronounced as it is in the word "magazine", rather than as a J ?
Thankfully nothing came of that and everyone I know still calls it marjarine.
It seems that the official pronunciation is now "spread"
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Lol, that's because it IS a French word originally.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nougat
This Wiki article mentions the various pronunciations. Interestingly, Americans pronounce the word "nugget" too.
(For the record, I would pronounce the word as "noogah".).
I reckon you must just learn the pronounciation from your parents... mad though how it can be so different eh?
Aye you must, it is mad - I cannae say croissant - I am too embarrassed.:D
or pot pourri. I just say smelly stuff.
When they became widespread, the name became poncey (imo) and they were called bagels, pronounced 'bay-gawls'.
I have never been able to buy one away from home (unless in a supermarket or if I point at it!), as I absolutely cannot bring myself to pronounce it the 'new' way, and every time I've said beigal, they've looked at me as if I'm from the Moon. I'd rather go without than speak oddly.
snorted again:D
Awww
I say it cwassant... dunno if thats right or no but i'm no caring
and yog-ert, rather than yo-gurt.
Croissant is 'cwassunt' to me... you have to be careful when typing that
and pot pourri was always 'pot pure-y', I only found out recently that I say it funny
bath, not barth (for both the place and the thing you wash in)
tort-us
neither bay-gel nor bie-gel - I can't stand the tasteless rubbish
it used to be nugget, but over the years I appeared to have gentrified into saying noo-gah
parkay
nessels
But the really important question is:
Is it Cool wip or Cool wHip?
I find that question rather shallow and pedantic.
my mum calls liquorice lickeris instead of lickerish, why?
Does anyone remember the time in the seventies when there was a TV commercial which seemed to be trying to introduce a new pronunciation of the word "margarine" with the G pronounced as it is in the word "magazine", rather than as a J ?
Thankfully nothing came of that and everyone I know still calls it marjarine.
Yes but only 'council kids' watched commercial TV...
It seems that the official pronunciation is now "spread"