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The first time I ever saw gyros, when my mom got some frozen ones, I assumed they were pronounced JI-rows, like a gyroscope. I learned the correct pronounciation years later after seeing them on a cooking show.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ellen
It must drive the guys that sell gyros at the state fair nuts to have so many people come up to the booth and mispronounce them! Or maybe they don't care as long as they're getting paid.
Speaking of food mispronunciations, no one I know in real life knows how to pronounce "quinoa" properly. Drives me insane!
All the smoke hasn't been from tobacco fires...we've had quite a few fogs. :) I've noticed our weather (and crops) has been 1-2 months ahead this year. The swallows have started leaving early and the green in the trees is beginning to dull.Quote:
Originally Posted by coltnlasma
Really? Wow. I've heard hardly any mispronunciations here.Quote:
Originally Posted by PhoneGrrrl
(It was a different story, however, when I was on vacation in Wisconsin last month.)
I'm convinced I work with savants. They know their jobs but they don't know anything else outside of that. Two well-accomplished professionals were discussing how much they really like kin-no-uh. It took me a few seconds to figure out what they were talking about--it could have been some weird new thing I'd not heard of. Boggles my mind, since I can buy quinoa in freakin' Walmart. Then again, maybe I've answered my own question with the Walmart thing. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ellen
With a chef daughter, I was way ahead of the curve on pronouncing "quinoa" correctly and have had a lot of people say, "Oh, it that how it's pronounced?"
I tend to give people a little slack on the pronunciation of certain things for awhile after they've reached public notice (though not "nucular" - that doesn't even work phonetically :ohno) because there have been words over the years that I have been completely familiar with through reading, but had never heard anyone use verbally, so my pronunciation was way off-base. I live in a really large city so quinoa is referenced often, but I can see where in a smaller centre people might be reading about it, but not hearing about it so the confusion is understandable. And with respect to gyros, I'm still not 100% comfortable with the pronunciation because, even though I live about two kilometres away from the Greek neighbourhood, I don't know anyone who eats that stuff and pretty the only reference I hear to them is, upon spotting one of those fly-specked posters in a restaurant window, is "how can anyone voluntarily ingest that crap". So, as far as I'm concerned, it's pronounced crap.
I've done that more times than I think I know! I found out a couple of years ago that I've been saying incongruous incorrectly. I was pronouncing it with the emphasis on the syllables like incongruity, then I heard Tim Gunn say it on Project Runway. I had a feeling he had to be right. I looked it up and found out that the way I was saying it wasn't even a secondary pronunciation. I've been listening to a lot of audio books and think, oh, is that how you say that?!! Sometimes the way I say it is a dictionary approved second pronunciation so neither of us is wrong. The one I refuse to change the way I say is forte. It turns out that pronouncing it as 'fort' is an acceptable pronunciation. Not to me, it just needs that extra 'e' sound at the end for me to know what is being said. IMO a fort is an army stronghold, not a person's special talent or skill. I know now it is a correct pronunciation, I just don't like it. :lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Rattus
My older sister will do this occasionally and if I know how it is pronounced I realize she's probably read the word, and not heard it. One I knew from hearing, but always mispronounced it to myself when reading it is bivouac. MrCoz was in national guard when we first were married. I had occasion to hear him say it many times. However, for some odd reason I kept putting the 'o' before the 'v' when I said it to myself (bio - vac). No idea why I did that. It's still one that if I read it I have to consciously think of the correct way to say it.
I learned how to pronouce it long ago, but whenever you go to a place to order one, EVERYONE there calls it JI-row, so, I feel odd to be the only person in line who says it differently though correctly. lol The workers don't care. They are used to it by now, I'm sure. This is in the capital city of our state. (NC)Quote:
Originally Posted by pikachu
And so the dumbing down of the population continues. I guess pronouncing forte as "fort" had to become accepted because people are too moronic to bother learning that forte is pronounced with the extre "e" sound because it's actually a French word (feminine version of 'fort'). This was probably determined to be acceptable by the same people who think "wa la!" is a real word/phrase instead of the correct "voila!"Quote:
Originally Posted by justCoz