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  • #5702
    Toulouse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,413 ✭✭✭Toulouse


    Merkin wrote: »
    Hallah-paynyo

    Me too!

    Or Jallop-eh-noes if I'm feeling silly.


  • #5703
    Dizzyblonde
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 12,110 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dizzyblonde


    Hallapayno :)


  • #5704
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,387 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Shenshen wrote: »
    Can I just ask, how do you guys feel about the pronounciation of jalapeño?
    Chill-ee pep-er ;)

    wiki lists 3, you can listen to audio of the spanish one

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalape%C3%B1o


  • #5705
    Merkin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,230 ✭✭✭Merkin


    A word I hate is CHIPOTLE.

    How does everyone pronounce it? I say chip-ot-lay. Is that right? I try to avoid saying it because I think it's offensive to the ears.


  • #5706
    Lovely Bloke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,748 ✭✭✭✭Lovely Bloke


    Toulouse wrote: »
    Or Jallop-eh-noes if I'm feeling silly.

    Jallep-ehnoes if I'm feeling it.

    Chipottle for the other one.


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  • #5707
    MissFlitworth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,057 ✭✭✭MissFlitworth


    Chi-pote-lay


  • #5708
    Tilly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,987 ✭✭✭Tilly


    Dont even get my started on chorizo :P


  • #5709
    Shenshen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    Bruschetta is another favourite - an Italian colleague of mine got into a serious argument with a waitress over that at one point. Great fun to watch.


  • #5710
    The Hill Billy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,859 ✭✭✭✭The Hill Billy


    Shenshen wrote: »
    See, that's a little pet peeve of mine - why pronounce the first half of the word in Spanish, and then give up half way through and pronounce the rest in English? And then return to Spanish just before the end? :confused:

    Doesn't put me off the chilis, though, it just occasionally makes me rant at my husband :D

    How should it be pronounced? Halla-pay-nyo?

    If I've been saying it wrong all this time, I'll hang my head in shame now when I go to my local greengrocers. :o


  • #5711
    Mrs Fox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,292 ✭✭✭Mrs Fox


    Tilly wrote: »
    Dont even get my started on chorizo :P


    I'm all for proper pronunciation but unless I'm in Spain I can't bring myself to say KHAW-REE-TSOH.
    Churreetzoh for me :)


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  • #5712
    Diamond Doll
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,344 ✭✭✭Diamond Doll


    I'd say hal-eh-PEE-nyo and kaw-REET-zo.

    And keen-wa for quinoa.

    No idea if any of those are right/wrong!

    Another one that came up recently was Chai Tea ... I pronounce it like Kye, a colleague insists it's pronounced She-ah. :confused:


  • #5713
    The Black Oil
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 19,487 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Black Oil


    What have you started, tHB? :pac:

    Moderator: Television, Psychology and Dublin County North.

    CMod: Entertainment



  • #5714
    Shenshen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    The Hill Billy wrote: »
    How should it be pronounced? Halla-pay-nyo?

    If I've been saying it wrong all this time, I'll hang my head in shame now when I go to my local greengrocers. :o

    I don't think there's any one correct way, the Spanish would be halla - puh - nyo (as close as I can get the spelling there), or if you want to go English jalla - pee - no.

    It's only the mixing of the two that sets anal old me ranting. I get the same way about chorizo, Ibiza, Peugeot... it's daft, but everyone needs a pet hate, no?


  • #5715
    The Hill Billy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,859 ✭✭✭✭The Hill Billy


    Quinoa: Kwin-OH-ah? Keen-WAH?
    Paella: Pah-yell-ah? Pah-yay-ah?
    Jalapenos :Halla-pee-no? Hallah-paynyo? Halla-pee-nyo? Jallapeeno? Jallop-eh-noes? Hal-eh-PEE-nyo? Chill-ee pep-er?
    Chipotle: Chip-ot-lay? Chipottle? Chi-pote-lay?
    Chorizo: KHAW-REE-TSOH? Churreetzoh? Kaw-REET-zo?
    Chai: Kye? She-ah?

    can-of-worms.jpg


  • #5716
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,745 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Shenshen wrote: »
    Can I just ask, how do you guys feel about the pronounciation of jalapeño?

    I usually pronounce it "Is there chilli in this? You could have told me! Argh, argh, it burns! Why do people put this agony in food on purpose!" Usually accompanied by actual wailing and gnashing of teeth.


  • #5717
    Neyite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,946 ✭✭✭✭Neyite


    The Hill Billy wrote: »
    Quinoa - now there's a thing...

    If it was pronounced Kwin-OH-ah, I'd probably be more inclined to eat it. But the generally-used pronunciation of Keen-WAH sounds pretentious to me & turns me off.

    And so ends my random Tuesday morning musing while sipping on my cuppa at my desk before all hell breaks loose... :)

    I totally read that in Father Purcell's voice. :D


  • #5718
    MissFlitworth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,057 ✭✭✭MissFlitworth


    The Hill Billy wrote: »
    Quinoa: Kwin-OH-ah? Keen-WAH?
    Paella: Pah-yell-ah? Pah-yay-ah?
    Jalapenos :Halla-pee-no? Hallah-paynyo? Halla-pee-nyo? Jallapeeno? Jallop-eh-noes? Hal-eh-PEE-nyo? Chill-ee pep-er?
    Chipotle: Chip-ot-lay? Chipottle? Chi-pote-lay?
    Chorizo: KHAW-REE-TSOH? Churreetzoh? Kaw-REET-zo?
    Chai: Kye? She-ah?

    Coming to a supermarket aisle near us all soon..

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxoC5Oyf_ss


  • #5719
    The Hill Billy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,859 ✭✭✭✭The Hill Billy


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ3fjQa5Hls
    :pac:


  • #5720
    Faith
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,661 Mod ✭✭✭✭Faith


    Mrs Fox wrote: »
    I'm all for proper pronunciation but unless I'm in Spain I can't bring myself to say KHAW-REE-TSOH.
    Churreetzoh for me :)

    "KHAW"? I can't pronounce that in my head! I say Churreetzoh as well. Although over here, if you order that in a restaurant, they have no idea what you have asked for unless you say "chor-it-so".
    This little piggy wrote: »
    Another one that came up recently was Chai Tea ... I pronounce it like Kye, a colleague insists it's pronounced She-ah. :confused:

    It's 'ch' like 'chat'. Ch-ai.


  • #5721
    Gloomtastic!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,361 ✭✭✭Gloomtastic!


    Another simple one I have a problem with......Pho


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  • #5722
    MissFlitworth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,057 ✭✭✭MissFlitworth


    I was calling Pho - foe (as in fi..fi..pho...fum) but have been informed that it's fuh? I feel stupid saying fuh though


  • #5723
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 21,534 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    MissFlitworth wrote: »
    I was calling Pho - foe (as in fi..fi..pho...fum) but have been informed that it's fuh? I feel stupid saying fuh though
    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ph%E1%BB%9F.oga

    More like fauh if this is to be believed.


  • #5724
    Mrs Fox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,292 ✭✭✭Mrs Fox


    MissFlitworth wrote: »
    I was calling Pho - foe (as in fi..fi..pho...fum)

    That's an excellent name for a restaurant - fee fi pho fum :)

    It's a soft 'fuh' I believe, without making your mouth go oooooo. Like that.


  • #5725
    Merkin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,230 ✭✭✭Merkin


    Mrs Fox wrote: »
    That's an excellent name for a restaurant - fee fi pho fum :)

    It's a soft 'fuh' I believe, without making your mouth go oooooo. Like that.

    Top of the class Foxy!!

    http://youtu.be/jgX2q9WPoqo


  • #5726
    Faith
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,661 Mod ✭✭✭✭Faith


    Yup, 'fuh' :). My Vietnamese colleague gave me his mum's recipe for pho recently. I can't wait to try it when the weather cools down a bit!


  • #5727
    TeletextPear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,413 ✭✭✭TeletextPear


    The place I work at has a chipotle item on the menu - the amount of people who ask for 'chipolata' is astounding


  • #5728
    Minder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,774 ✭✭✭Minder


    Mrs Fox wrote: »
    That's an excellent name for a restaurant - fee fi pho fum :)

    It's a soft 'fuh' I believe, without making your mouth go oooooo. Like that.

    As in Pot au Feu, the French soup.


  • #5729
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,040 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    Short lived not very good restaurant in Cork called Pho claimed it was pronounced "fa".


  • #5730
    Mrs Fox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,292 ✭✭✭Mrs Fox


    the beer revolu wrote: »
    Short lived not very good restaurant in Cork called Pho claimed it was pronounced "fa".


    Do Re Mi Pho So La Ti Do :D


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  • #5731
    Lovely Bloke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,748 ✭✭✭✭Lovely Bloke


    In a somewhat related note, the first time I saw Butterflied Chicken on a menu I assumed it was a mistake, and should have been Butter Fried, so I ordered it, and wasn't disappointed because the butterflied chicken actually tasted like it has been fried in butter.


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