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nougat?
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ive just bought a bar of this and when i told my husband he said its not nougat( newgar) its pronounced nugget, how do you pronounce it?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I've just checked my Concise Oxford English Dictionary - apparently it can be pronounced either way - 'nu:ga: (ie noo gar) or nugget (I can't type the special characters for that one lol).
The COED says it's 19c from the French (Provencal) nogat, from noga 'nut'.
A website I found (http://www.flakmag.com/misc/nougat.html) states that the word itself is French, with an assumed derivation from the Vulgar Latin "nuca," which relates back to the origin of the word "nuts."
Interestingly enough (ok, maybe not !) when I checked the derivation of the word nut in the COED, it said it was from the Old English hnutu of Germanic origin......
The COED says it's 19c from the French (Provencal) nogat, from noga 'nut'.
A website I found (http://www.flakmag.com/misc/nougat.html) states that the word itself is French, with an assumed derivation from the Vulgar Latin "nuca," which relates back to the origin of the word "nuts."
Interestingly enough (ok, maybe not !) when I checked the derivation of the word nut in the COED, it said it was from the Old English hnutu of Germanic origin......