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telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2010-06-10 10:21 am
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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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[identity profile] estara.livejournal.com 2010-06-10 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
We speak that with a 'g' over here ^^, heh. Fascinating to read all these different conventions.
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[identity profile] estara.livejournal.com 2010-06-10 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh and an u-Umlaut: ΓΌ as the pronunciation of the 'y'