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[telophase]

I do quite often marvel at the customers in the Not Always Right blog, but today the joke's on the server -- in this one, we're supposed to be amazed that the mispronouncing customer is mollified when the server re-pronounces the name of the dish.

Except that the customer (and about a billion people in the U.S.) is correct. "Bruschetta" is NOT "broo-shet-ta". In Italian, if there's an "h" after a "c", it's a hard c, and pronounced as "k". It's "broo-sket-ta".

Drives me up the wall, that does.

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[estara.livejournal.com]

That reminds of the time my brother when mental when I first ate nyokkee and called them gnotshee ^^ *







* I'm talking about gnocchi, in case it's not remotely understandable.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Hee! A college friend twitched visibly when I ate a *jy-ro* instead of a *yee-ro*.





(Gyro.)

[shop1442.livejournal.com]

IIRC, the 'correct' (read: Greek) pronunciation is between *guy-ro* and *yee-ro*.

As Eb said (first), though, English (and especially American English) mangles foreign words all to hell. Usually.

(Why yes, I am a linguist, why do you ask?)

[estara.livejournal.com]

We speak that with a 'g' over here ^^, heh. Fascinating to read all these different conventions.

[estara.livejournal.com]

Oh and an u-Umlaut: ü as the pronunciation of the 'y'