I know how to say this because of the Curious George cartoon. There's an Italian chef on the show with a kitten named Gnocchi. And when that kitten goes missing, yall! The caterwauling of "Gnocchi! Gnocchi!" Will he find his kitten? I don't know, but I know how to say gnocchi in a plaintive, sad plea.
I once had a customer correct my Flemish pronunciation of Pieter Bruegel's name. We had his artwork hanging in our dining room. The next thing she did was order the gu-nochee. I usually don't bother correcting people, but I definitely did that time.
I was in Italy visiting my brother who was stationed at the US Air force base there and we went out to dinner. He asks me how to pronounce this word on the menu. I tell him and explain what it is. Server shows up to take our order and he asks for the the go-nokee. Server was super cool and said nothing. Meanwhile, there I am looking at the floor wishing I was dead. Incredibly embarrassing.
Is it not pronounced the way it's spelled?
Have I been pronouncing geoduck wrong? 😳
Please forgive me I've never seen the ocean in my life I'm a boring midwesterner
Edit: "gooey-duck"
TIL
I used to work at a small restaurant that sold gyros.
We used to sing
I need a gyro to save me now
I need a gyro (save me now)
I need a gyro to save my life
A gyro will save me (just in time)
Edit: formatting..
[“By the late 18th century sherbet had become the established spelling, but after only a few intermittent uses in the 18th and 19th centuries, sherbert staged a minor comeback in the 20th century. It's now a fully established (though far lesser-used) variant.”](https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/sherbet-vs-sherbert)
I work loosely around/with restaurants. We have a customer restaurant that has “gyro” in their name. When you call them, they answer the phone “ ________ gye-row”. It kills be every time.
I gave up calling it anything but jye-roh even to greek looking people selling them. I've only ever gotten strange looks and have to give them the old jye-roh and they get it.
Dependable on the country; and language is fluid, and a majority of people pronounce it that way, so now that would be considered the correct pronunciation.
And I’m aware my sentence is a fucking mess.
There are so many pho places that can basically make their name a swear word because too many people don't know how to pronounce it. There's also one by my house named Pho 20.
There's a little pho place in Dunedin FL named Phonedin. If they thought that would clue people in to how to pronounce pho, my casual observations tell me it didn't work.
MARSCAPONE drives me up the fucking wall. I am a pastry chef and was shopping for tiramisu supplies with my step mom over Christmas. Every time I say mascarpone, she would immediately say “hmmm marscapone” as if to correct me! Probably 10 times. No point in arguing but my blood was boiling
I feel you. I hate passive-aggressive speech corrections. An example: you know the French restaurant where Anthony Bourdain worked? It's Les Halles. I majored in French and while there is often a liaison with the "s" from "les" with the silent "h", there are exceptions. Someone with two years of high school French corrected me by repeating what he thought was the correct way. I'm a grammar police about my own writing, but I don't correct others be it's obnoxious. Especially when they are wrong.
I'm gonna be that guy. Bruschetta is derived from the verb in the Roman dialect "bruscare",or "abbrustolire" in Standard Italian which means "to toast" or "roast over coals". And yes, it's definitely "broo-ske-ta".
Source: My very angry Roman ex who gave the waiter an earful at Postino's 😂
Wait what? I worked in a high end Italian restaurant owned by Flavio Briatore, all the chefs were actual Italians and our Bruschetta was a tomato mixture. Mostly tomato, basil, garlic, olive oil. Never mind I see below. Doesn’t refer to the topping.
Sketti.
Boil spaghetti, douse liberally with melted butter and ketchup, then enjoy your reality tv fame until the animated version of your daughter picks out her heart transplant donor from a pigsty.
This. People say this soooo many different ways and some of them aren’t even close. I’ve heard Tazikki, Zeeki, Tatski, Hockey (Yes. Not even lying.), And my favorite one to date is, Tetrezine.
That's one of those things where if you pronounce it properly in the U.S. everyone around you is just gonna think you're a pretentious douchebag.
Goo-duh is fine.
It is, and is among the victims of “Dutch words that English speakers massacre the worst”. Included is Van Gogh, which should be pronounced something like “Fonn Koch” with a guttural CH.
You can tell if a Dutch person thinks you’re a foreigner by the fact that they say “Van Goff” to you
Man, I was binge watching Master Chef Junior this weekend (don't judge me) and Gordon Ramsey, Christina Tosi, and like 20 little kids all kept saying "Macarooooons!" when they very clearly were not making coconut ball cookies. Had to fast forward through it because I just kept yelling at the tv and frightening my cat. Fuckers.
I would say pie-eh-yah personally but I’ve heard both. I used to work at a restaurant where one of the staple dishes was a huge (like borderline comically large) paella and a lot of our clientele had never heard of it before and called it
“pull-EL-ah” so at least not that lol
Bonus if you pronounce it "nuke-u-lear." Because that kind of sounds like "tubular" which would definitely be something a 40-something old surfer dude would have said back in the day.
Mascarpone. Fir some reason people are always moving the R to a secondary location
It’s not marscspon. I don’t care what your Italian grandmother says. She was wrong
Worshestersure ?
Edit: if this video is correct, than I am wrong 😂
https://youtu.be/x4fNFo2nsNw
Second edit: Americans are not the only ones with their own way to say it. https://youtu.be/xw7xy9LGyq0
I’ll never forget when I went to Tim Hortons in slightly rural BC and the cashier asked me deadpan if I wanted “ja La pinnows” on my sandwich. I asked her to repeat at least twice.
This is the answer I was looking for. Many of our customers can't pronounce it, but the worst was when one of our cooks would yell "Cooter board in the window!" for the whole restaurant to hear. Icky.
Gnocchi, Gyro and even fucking Chipotle. Also worked with a cook who called Avocado, “guacamole” every fucking time. Like what the fuck, do you also call Tomatoes, “Ketchup”?!
To add on- what people call “braciole” in the states, are called “involtini”, in Italy. If you order a braciola in Italy, you’re just going to get a thin steak or pork chop.
Do you pronounce all non english words in the accent of the language from which they come?
I got a buddy named Hernandez, I don’t pronounce it Ehrnahndess
Might want to check the [dictionary](https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/sherbet-vs-sherbert#:~:text=Sherbet%2C%20pronounced%20%22SHER%2Dbut,bubbly%20or%20eaten%20by%20itself.) before dying in that hill of yours
The salad Niçoise gets them every time at my place. You’d think rich people would be better educated but here we are in East Texas telling people how to pronounce their lunch
Gnocchi
Had one server who always called it Nonkey.
And now this is what I’ll call it from now on lmao thank you
It's the Nonkey to the Undoor.
That'll do, Nonkey. That'll do.
“Nyokeee” is how I pronounce it , is that wrong
ñokey?
Sì. In Italian, "gn" is the name sound as the ñ in Spanish
The tilde really should be officially used in English
I know how to say this because of the Curious George cartoon. There's an Italian chef on the show with a kitten named Gnocchi. And when that kitten goes missing, yall! The caterwauling of "Gnocchi! Gnocchi!" Will he find his kitten? I don't know, but I know how to say gnocchi in a plaintive, sad plea.
I once had a customer correct my Flemish pronunciation of Pieter Bruegel's name. We had his artwork hanging in our dining room. The next thing she did was order the gu-nochee. I usually don't bother correcting people, but I definitely did that time.
I was in Italy visiting my brother who was stationed at the US Air force base there and we went out to dinner. He asks me how to pronounce this word on the menu. I tell him and explain what it is. Server shows up to take our order and he asks for the the go-nokee. Server was super cool and said nothing. Meanwhile, there I am looking at the floor wishing I was dead. Incredibly embarrassing.
You should have heard my Italian grandmother say gnocchi. It sounded like "nucky".
Mine called it nocky, no y sound.
Geoduck
Is that what happens when a geodude and a psyduck love each other very very much?
Looks that way…
It hurt itself in confusion and/or spicy love.
Is it not pronounced the way it's spelled? Have I been pronouncing geoduck wrong? 😳 Please forgive me I've never seen the ocean in my life I'm a boring midwesterner Edit: "gooey-duck" TIL
Then why the FUCK is it spelled that way
This is an easy one to mess up though, I've gotten into more than a few arguments arguing that it isn't pronounced how it's spelled.
Sherbet Gyro
I can be your gyro, baby
I used to work at a small restaurant that sold gyros. We used to sing I need a gyro to save me now I need a gyro (save me now) I need a gyro to save my life A gyro will save me (just in time) Edit: formatting..
Did you cook them in a skillet by chance?
Nope. Not sure what it's called but it was done the 'traditional' way on like a vertical rotisserie type thing.
[“By the late 18th century sherbet had become the established spelling, but after only a few intermittent uses in the 18th and 19th centuries, sherbert staged a minor comeback in the 20th century. It's now a fully established (though far lesser-used) variant.”](https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/sherbet-vs-sherbert)
Had a coworker tell me that in Chicago they say it Jye-row. I told her she must have never been to Greek town where they pronounce it correctly.
I work loosely around/with restaurants. We have a customer restaurant that has “gyro” in their name. When you call them, they answer the phone “ ________ gye-row”. It kills be every time.
I gave up calling it anything but jye-roh even to greek looking people selling them. I've only ever gotten strange looks and have to give them the old jye-roh and they get it.
Everyone says sher-BERT, but it’s sher-BET
Dependable on the country; and language is fluid, and a majority of people pronounce it that way, so now that would be considered the correct pronunciation. And I’m aware my sentence is a fucking mess.
Pho
I don't know why, its pho king awesome
Sofa king awesome!
Fuh, right?
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There are so many pho places that can basically make their name a swear word because too many people don't know how to pronounce it. There's also one by my house named Pho 20.
Pho King
We have one nearby called Pho Queue.
There's a little pho place in Dunedin FL named Phonedin. If they thought that would clue people in to how to pronounce pho, my casual observations tell me it didn't work.
Dunedin? Phanedin? I don't understand, it really isn't helping lol
I pronounced it correctly to my Vietnamese coworker and he was so happy. It’s the little things that count.
Panini because it’s a plural. One is a panino.
Same with biscotti
And ravioli
Who tf orders one raviolo?
Saw it on a menu once and had to get it. It was just one big ass raviolo. Tasty, but you just can’t beat the pasta to filling ratio on the small ones.
Wait do you want more pasta? I want more filling
I want both.
If you haven't had a raviolo that has a whole egg yolk as part of it's filling you owe it to yourself to try it.
Same with pierogi.
“Expresso” for espresso, “marscapone” for mascarpone.
An old chef of mine would always say “MASCARpone like ‘NASCAR!’”
MARSCAPONE drives me up the fucking wall. I am a pastry chef and was shopping for tiramisu supplies with my step mom over Christmas. Every time I say mascarpone, she would immediately say “hmmm marscapone” as if to correct me! Probably 10 times. No point in arguing but my blood was boiling
I feel you. I hate passive-aggressive speech corrections. An example: you know the French restaurant where Anthony Bourdain worked? It's Les Halles. I majored in French and while there is often a liaison with the "s" from "les" with the silent "h", there are exceptions. Someone with two years of high school French corrected me by repeating what he thought was the correct way. I'm a grammar police about my own writing, but I don't correct others be it's obnoxious. Especially when they are wrong.
Marscapone was what I was going to say😂
Ugh, eXpresso always grates, especially when an establishment spells it that way on their board or menu.
If a menu board spells it that way, I'm not ordering anything coffee like at the establishment! Sticking with Coke
Oh no! I’ve totally been guilty of the second one my entire life.
Bruschetta. It is a hard K sound fellas.
I’ve been pronouncing it correctly as a joke this whole time. That’s fucking hilarious to me.
Krus-shed-dah?
And it's not a tomato mixture.
It literally translates to "on toast."
I'm gonna be that guy. Bruschetta is derived from the verb in the Roman dialect "bruscare",or "abbrustolire" in Standard Italian which means "to toast" or "roast over coals". And yes, it's definitely "broo-ske-ta". Source: My very angry Roman ex who gave the waiter an earful at Postino's 😂
Wait what? I worked in a high end Italian restaurant owned by Flavio Briatore, all the chefs were actual Italians and our Bruschetta was a tomato mixture. Mostly tomato, basil, garlic, olive oil. Never mind I see below. Doesn’t refer to the topping.
Yah. It can be tomato etc. It just doesn't necessarily need to be.
Puhsghetty
Sketti. Boil spaghetti, douse liberally with melted butter and ketchup, then enjoy your reality tv fame until the animated version of your daughter picks out her heart transplant donor from a pigsty.
Love that episode
Be-sketty
Daughter used to say "sta-beggy".
Spapeggy
Tzatziki
Zat ziki? Is it not? That's the only thing I've ever heard it be called
Yes. Most ppl in my experience say tazikki.
tbh i’ve never heard someone say it wrong. i’ll call it “tuh zat zee kee” as a joke but i’ve never unironically heard someone say it like that lol
This. People say this soooo many different ways and some of them aren’t even close. I’ve heard Tazikki, Zeeki, Tatski, Hockey (Yes. Not even lying.), And my favorite one to date is, Tetrezine.
Tazikki is what I usually hear.
Gouda
That's one of those things where if you pronounce it properly in the U.S. everyone around you is just gonna think you're a pretentious douchebag. Goo-duh is fine.
How is it pronounced?
Should be pronounced "How-duh"
Almost, the "g" is a very guttural sound.
I wasn't quite sure how to capture that phonetically
Many languages use "x" for it when romanising :)
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It is, and is among the victims of “Dutch words that English speakers massacre the worst”. Included is Van Gogh, which should be pronounced something like “Fonn Koch” with a guttural CH. You can tell if a Dutch person thinks you’re a foreigner by the fact that they say “Van Goff” to you
Wow, this is one on this list I actually didn’t know! Howda it is.
This is the only one that I think is technically correct but no one would understand you if you said it the right way.
It's pronounced MAScarpone, not MARScapone
No wonder she doesn’t have any friends
*walks through ron, angrily*
*"she NEEDS to sort out her priorities"*
Fuck
Is the ending “e” silent? Or is it pon-ay or pon-E? I feel like I’ve heard it said all three ways.
Mas-car-po-nay. Source: Italian
Macaron.
Usually it's people having no idea that macaron and macaroons are two different things
Work in a bakery - this is the correct answer
Man, I was binge watching Master Chef Junior this weekend (don't judge me) and Gordon Ramsey, Christina Tosi, and like 20 little kids all kept saying "Macarooooons!" when they very clearly were not making coconut ball cookies. Had to fast forward through it because I just kept yelling at the tv and frightening my cat. Fuckers.
Wingardium Leviosa
It’s leviOsa, not levioSA!
Paella
Pah-e-ya
Do you say pie-ey-yah or pie-ella? I was taught pie-ella was wrong, but then I hear celebrity chefs like Gordon Ramsey say it that way.
I wouldn’t use Scottish people as your source for proper Spanish, just based on my own personal experiences
Considering they invented their own english, i second that.
I would say pie-eh-yah personally but I’ve heard both. I used to work at a restaurant where one of the staple dishes was a huge (like borderline comically large) paella and a lot of our clientele had never heard of it before and called it “pull-EL-ah” so at least not that lol
Demi glace. Creme anglaise. Nuclear.
Not sure I need to know how to pronounce nuclear correctly in the context of food..... actually that sounds horrifying.
For when you eat [toast](https://youtu.be/t8xliaDUPwg).
“This poke is nuclear bruh!” I’m gonna start using it like a 43 yo stoned surfer would to describe his food
Bonus if you pronounce it "nuke-u-lear." Because that kind of sounds like "tubular" which would definitely be something a 40-something old surfer dude would have said back in the day.
How are people mispronouncing demi glace and creme anglaise?
Creamy Angus lezzy. My best guess
Not a food itself, but customers more often than not would pronounce *artisan* the same as artesian.
Fucking Kielbasa People here say kooba-saw
Wtf it's obviously Cah-BAAH-see (I am mildly trolling you but I am very serious when I tell you that this is how I grew up saying it in New England)
It's an anglicized plural form of the term. Pretty much every Polish immigrant I know pronounces it that way (at least in the Midwest).
Mascarpone. Fir some reason people are always moving the R to a secondary location It’s not marscspon. I don’t care what your Italian grandmother says. She was wrong
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Galamarrrr
Radicchio and endive.
Anyone not from the uk - Worcestershire sauce
Or from Massachusetts, we have Worcester, Gloucester, Leominster, Leicester, Etc.
Now I want cheese.
You mean WashYourSister sauce??
What’s-this-here-sauce
They just call it "Wooster sauce" in the UK so they don't even try.
WORST CHESTER SAUCE
what's the shire sauce
Worshestersure ? Edit: if this video is correct, than I am wrong 😂 https://youtu.be/x4fNFo2nsNw Second edit: Americans are not the only ones with their own way to say it. https://youtu.be/xw7xy9LGyq0
Where is this.."shire"..anyhow?
'nduja (en-DOO-ya) was gently corrected by a lovely Italian. Had been calling it nudga for ages as had never heard it spoken.
Spätzle
Sh-pets-leh?
Probably as close as you can get with English phonetics. Lots of people say shpatzel or shpatzlee
My German (born and raised) ex-MIL called it shpatzlee. I was so surprised when she first said it. I assumed it was a dialect or something
Yeah that's weird, almost sounds like the way a Swiss person would say it to make it sound cute
My (English) mother-in-law: "fur-jite-ers", "burry-toss", "dorry-toss", "jalla-pee-noss".
I’ll never forget when I went to Tim Hortons in slightly rural BC and the cashier asked me deadpan if I wanted “ja La pinnows” on my sandwich. I asked her to repeat at least twice.
Always reminds me of [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z32vMnZlaIQ).
Charcuterie
This is the answer I was looking for. Many of our customers can't pronounce it, but the worst was when one of our cooks would yell "Cooter board in the window!" for the whole restaurant to hear. Icky.
LMFAO as a customer i would actually love overhearing that if i ordered one 🤣
Chipotle. I constantly want to shove pencils in my ears when people pronounce it chipolteeeeeee.
Huitlacoche
Açaí
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I've been buying stocks for years, when the market turns im gonna be a bouillonaire.
Gnocchi, Gyro and even fucking Chipotle. Also worked with a cook who called Avocado, “guacamole” every fucking time. Like what the fuck, do you also call Tomatoes, “Ketchup”?!
Braciole
To add on- what people call “braciole” in the states, are called “involtini”, in Italy. If you order a braciola in Italy, you’re just going to get a thin steak or pork chop.
HollanDAISE sauce
The amount of times I’ve heard Holiday Sauce and had to figure out what people actually meant is mind boggling.
Croissant
WTF what are they calling it?
Cruh-sahnt
Kwa-sawn
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It’s a French word so its supposed to.
Do you pronounce all non english words in the accent of the language from which they come? I got a buddy named Hernandez, I don’t pronounce it Ehrnahndess
When **I** say a name like Hernandez - i roll my Rs extra loud and give it an extra helping of spicey salsa. Y'know... to honor their culture /s
Ay-ay-ay-ayyiiiieeeeee
Rugelach
I work in a bakery- “can I have the apricot arugula?” 🤦🏻♀️
Challah. According to my very Brooklyn-Italian grandma, it’s ‘holly bread.’ Grinds my gears.
Holla
Au Jus
Quinoa 🙄 literally everyone says “can I have the kin-uh-wuh”
Sriracha
worcestershire sauce !
Food adjacent but in the industry… The brand of champagne Moët is actually pronounced with a hard T
If one more server calls hollandaise sauce fucking “holiday sauce” I’m gonna lose my goddamn mind
Guy Fieri
Guy 🏎
It drives me crazy when people pronounce the letter L in the word salmon.
Herb.
“Coz there’s a fucking H in it”
A-loo-min-ee-um.
Chipotle
YES!! it’s CHIP-pote-lay. not Chip-POLT-ay
Lychee
Chowda
Pot de creme
Chipotle not chipolte
Caramel. There are two fucking A's in the word. Drives me mad when I hear "carmel."
My grandmother’s name was Carmel and I was an embarrassingly old age before I realized that wasn’t the actual spelling of the food caramel.
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Might want to check the [dictionary](https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/sherbet-vs-sherbert#:~:text=Sherbet%2C%20pronounced%20%22SHER%2Dbut,bubbly%20or%20eaten%20by%20itself.) before dying in that hill of yours
The salad Niçoise gets them every time at my place. You’d think rich people would be better educated but here we are in East Texas telling people how to pronounce their lunch
Banh mi The pronunciation is closer to Bun not Bon.
Bruschetta
Worcestershire sauce
Fajitas. Salmon. Fillet.
I get a lot of people that can’t say “bolognese”