Chorizo.

[Hammer Head]

When will people learn to properly pronounce the name of this Spanish sausage. Even so-called food experts get it terribly wrong on television. The correct pronunciation is 'choreetho', not 'choritzo'. It is SPANISH not Italian. I also cringe when I hear the word 'restaurateur' pronounced as 'restauranteur.

[crisgal]

i know what you mean!
Do you know what gets me? When they say "chee-a-batta"
instaed of "ch-a-batta"
Did you watch the restaurant?
One of the contestants, whilst writing his menu said "It is May-OG-naise, isn't it?"!

[Hammer Head]

Yes, that was Alistair who amazingly came second with his partner James despite dropping huge clangers along the way. He was onced ticked off by Raymond for putting 'Poached Pairs' on his menu.

[crisgal]

crikey, that's right, i'd forgotten that!
I was amazed they'd got to the final, they had disregarded the rules in every challenge and James treated Alistair appallingly.
I was absolutely gob-smacked when, at the end of his cooking demonstration, he told his audience, "You can't tatse it"!

[Hammer Head]

I've never seen a cookery demonstration where the audience didn't get to taste the food. They only kept getting through the challenges because there was always someone worse. I think M. Blanc had a narrow escape.

[crisgal]

I agree.
I think he made the right decision - but I hope they change the awful name!

[Hammer Head]

I also hope he has more luck with this year's winners. Last year's winners apparently left after aboue six months due to constant arguments and the pressure of a new baby.

[crisgal]

Do you know H, I can't for the life of me remember last year's winners. It has been bugging me all series.
Anyway, maybe you and I should enter next year as we obviously know how it should be done!!
(as long as we can do it from our armchairs, eh? )

[Quizmonster]

I don't know Spanish, so I have no doubt but that you are right in saying that the Spanish pronounce the word in the way described, but that doesn't mean English speakers are obliged to follow suit!
In fact, both The Oxford English Dictionary and Chambers Dictionary definitely give the z format, whilst the Bloomsbury Dictionary offers both z and th with the z first...ie it is the commoner of the two pronunciations here.
Apparent mispronunciation of foreign words is frequent and I'll bet there are loads of English words that the Spanish don't pronounce as we do. It doesn't make them wrong...it just makes them Spanish! If the French want to call London Londres, let 'em! They're not wrong, they're French.

[natalie_1982]

Well, whether it is right or wrong, it infuriates me when friends of mine talk about "choreetho" , "mozzareya" and "Valenthia", because I think it comes across as pompous. And that might make me small minded and ignorant, but I know what I mean when I say choritzo and I don't feel like a jumped up buffoon for doing so!

[ethandron]

'restauranteur' is, i believe, a standard variant spelling of the older french word 'restaurateur' and is perfectly acceptable.

[filthiestfis]

You can take a lion out of the jungle but you can't take the jungle of out the lion. Typical English don't know how to pronounce foreign words AND don't want to learn a new language because English is widely spoken. Now THAT is pomposity.

[Hammer Head]

Then you have been misled ethandron.

Quizmonster. You may well be right but you are still missing my point. It is definitely correct to pronounce it with a 'th' but also acceptable to Anglicise it to a 'z' but definitely wrong to pronounce it with a 'tz' as if it was Italian and spelt 'chorizzo'.

[shivvy]

EXpresso instead of ESpresso - ggrrrrrr!!!

Re Alistair in The Restaurant - scaloops instead of scallops - brilliant!!!