On the rare occasion that I order a pizza by telephone
I have to deliberately mispronounce ‘jalapeno’ so the invalid on the other end knows what I am talking about.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 16:48, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

how you say it?

( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 16:49, Reply)

With a 'J' not an 'H'
I assume
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 16:51, Reply)

And isn't it pehnio, too
Due to the squiggle (oh shush I don't know the technical name) over the n?
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 16:53, Reply)

Yes.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 16:54, Reply)

Halapenyo.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 16:53, Reply)

When I lived in Blackburn
before I moved out I had to get the bath replaced and I had to ring local companies to get quotes. Because I pronounce it 'barth', every single person on the other end of the phone would say "you want a what?" until I put on a shitty Lancashire accent and said it their way. It made me wonder if they can't understand the news because the newsreader doesn't have a northern accent. Who am I kidding, they don't watch the news.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 16:57, Reply)

"On the rare occasion that I order a pizza by telephone"
"I do believe that if I sequentially depress the numbered buttons on this new fangled device in accordance with the number on the leaflet, that they send a man round to cook food for me, or some such thing"
(Cave Duck, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 17:12, Reply)