FrRood Rant:Went to a really nice restaurant last night. The chef was trained at the CIA.

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cynupstateny

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When we we were handed the dessett menu one dish was described as having maRscapone in it. Does it bug anyone else to have Food Network and other pros constantly mispronounce this or is it only me? I heard Michael Chiarello say it incorrectly and he's Italian!

 
I was chastised (and I mean that word EXACTLY) by someone for mispronouncing

bruschetta..

"It's BREW-SKET-TA"...not "BREW -SHET-TA"!! WHY DOES EVERYONE MAKE THAT MISTAKE. CAN'T THEY READ?"

ah, that would be ME sitting right across from her, mispronouncing that word because apparently I can't read.

And I tend to say MARS-capone because I've spelled it wrong so many times I deliberately add in the R sound to remind myself to include it. I'm not even sure of the correct pronunciation.

 
sigh...Americans. I've had that same bruschetta argument.

Before we went to Saudi we had only traveled mainly in the Caribbean so one of our first trips, and I think it was Cyprus, we took a cab back to our hotel. We told the driver "The Sheraton". He said where? We kept repeating it and couldn't understand how he didn't know such a well known hotel. Then suddenly he said, "Oh! The Sheraton". When we said it we pronounced it with a D not a T. I took note and learned right then how to correctly pronounce words. We Americans are lazy and we always think we're right.

 
I was corrected on that one, too. We all mispronounce at times but neither

onee of us is a Food Network chef (unless you're leading a secret life we know nothing about).

 
I was born and raised in a small town on the coast of No CA. When I married and moved

three hours inland, and began to make friends, I learned my phrases and some pronunciations were different here. One of my first friends was an English teacher, who corrected me on something the first time we met. Over the next few months , she would ask about phrases I said saying she had never heard of "that" in these parts.

Many months later when my mom came for a visit, I noticed some words she pronounced the same way I used to and I corrected her . It was amazing to me how moving three hours inland, some of the language was not known or pronounced differently. Eureka (on the coast) had a large Portuguese culture, my mom came here from the Azores at fifteen with her siblings and parents, so maybe that is why we said some things with the pronunciation skewed.

 
Mascarpone has the "r" at the end of the second syllable. smileys/wink.gif

I have to double check myself up every time I write it....smileys/bigsmile.gif

As far as I am concerned - who cares how you spell it/say it as long as it tastes good?!

 
I am a teacher, and I am amazed that some folks in the education field

seem to not consider local pronunciation conventions.

Since my "day job" is teaching little people, many of them English language learners, I always try to let them know different pronunciations and different regional terminology. We just read a book where the characters referred to "sody-pop", and they all thought that was really funny, since we call it "soda". So we listed all the names for it that we knew - soda, pop, soda pop, sody coke, soft drink, etc.

I do think it is rude for adults to correct each other, unless someone asks if they are pronouncing something correctly.

 
Many, Many years ago; dh and I went to a dive bar / restaurant in the outer banks, I asked for White

Zin (Can you tell I was young!), Anyway, the waitress, after checking w. the bar tender (Because they were only used to selling beer), told me that they had Rose (Pronounced like the flower), and Chianti (with the CH as in Chair)... To this day, dh and I laugh.

Having said that, they had the best live music and shrimp!!!

Dive bars can be great!!

 
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