You Say Tomato
On the way to work this morning there was a McDonald's commercial on the
radio. The lady doing the voiceover boasted of the coffee being 100%
arabica. The thing is, she pronounced it "uh-RAB-ic-uh", and I always
thought it was "AIR-uh-BEAK-uh". Is this a case of potato vs. potahto?
I'd hate to think I was saying it wrong all along.
posted by Grover at 4/12/2005 01:42:00 PM
3 Comments:
Well I've always pronounced it: "a-ra-bee-kah", that's the way I've always heard it.
Pronounciations change so much from place to place, I wouldn't worry about it too much.
Otherwise it descends in to,
You say "Tomato", I say "For **** sake stop pronouncing everything wrong, or I'll ****ing beat you to death with rancid red fruits..." etc.. ;)
Dude, the radio chick was right after all. Damn. Everybody I know calls it air-a-beak-a though. Uh-RAB-ic-uh just sound awkward. :-(
Everyone pronounces things differently - especially americans - especially on food.
As someone that discusses cooking a lot (it being a strong interest of mine), I'm forever coming up against major differences in the British/American forms of English.
As a rule, if it's food - just say it how you think you say it - that's what everyone else does. Things vary from place to place just within Britain and we're small.
My personal most hated american pronounciation for food is "herbs" - when the hell did the 'h' become silent??? Londoners are famous for dropping their 'h's and we don't tend to drop that one!
Oh and certain new yorkers aren't allowed to say Coffee near me. It certainly doesn't contain a 'w'. ;)
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