Ok
enough about if it's dinner or tea (it's supper). and how to say scone (to rhyme with gone).

Am I alone to thinks it's common to pronounce Nougat - nugget? I pronounce it noogar.

And while we are about it Nestle is Nesslay not nessels.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Tue 21 Oct 2008, 18:19, 13 replies)

Nestle
used to be Nestles. That's why old people call it that.

Much in the same way as starburst are opal fruits and snickers are marathons.
( CowJam, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 18:46, closed)

I thought it was always Nestle
just people were dim.
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 18:54, closed)

If you see an old advert
they pronounce it nessels.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Tue 21 Oct 2008, 18:57, closed)

Ha
I had a similar experience at School, my friends called me a poof because I pronounced it noogar.

:*(
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 18:46, closed)

You remind me of
A French teacher (she taught French that is, but was from somewhere in Surrey, I suspect) who stood in for my English teacher once. He'd set us a question with romance in it, something like "How is the subject of romance handled in Grahame Greene's Brighton Rock?" The young lady in question insisted on pronouncing the word "Ramonce." Because she was a French teacher. And "Ramonce is a French word."
(Troutbiscuits, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 18:49, closed)

A bit like Chris D'Burgh
in Lady in Red when he rhymes romance with dance.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Tue 21 Oct 2008, 18:53, closed)

Well now y'see
that'd be OK here Oop North where they're both pronounced the same.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 19:00, closed)

No it's not okay
there is never any excuse for Chris D'Burgh
(Bazongaloid, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 19:18, closed)

I now see
that she wasn't at the very end of the scale of wrongness I had previously thought she occupied.
(Troutbiscuits, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 19:12, closed)

Radio Ads
There was an ad for something on local radio recently which tried to rhyme book with luck. It probably sounded ok as the ad-man sand it to himself in his Hull accent, but then it sounded awful on the radio using people who are not of a local origin.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 21:04, closed)

A'f'me
One pronounces it n't.
(Chickenwire social lubricator extraordinaire, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 19:33, closed)

I bet
you say "hoo-moose" too.

*shakes head*

*agrees about scone though*

*nods*
( warmfuzzies Isn't here, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 21:06, closed)

Hoo-moose?
what?
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Wed 22 Oct 2008, 7:42, closed)