It's my understanding that there used to be a whole TV series about a family of Munster.
My dog is a Gou-da boy. But that is not a name
Mo is short for Mozzarella.
What’s wrong with Wenslydale?
Dale is short for Wensleydale
Chad, short for chaddar :)
Colby.
Jack
Here are my kids Parmesean, Parmejohn, and Parmedawn.
Don't forget Parmekayleigh
Harvey is short for havarti
And Bert is short for Camenbert.
So it's pronounced Parme-sean
Depends on whether you pronounce has Sean or Sean.
Colby? Jack? Lori?
Lori??
Lori deez nuts, lmao gotem
Iirc it's an Armenian semi-soft cheese.
So it is! TIL
John Cleese's original family name was Cheese, but his dad changed it because it was silly
Well now I have to link this clip and I deliberately chose the audio only version because it's so much better than any other.
SHUT THAT BLOODY BOUZUKI UP!!
If it isn't yet, Roquefort should definitely be a first name for well-groomed little boys in fancy little adult outfits.
Listen to this for more cheeses.
Jarlsberg? Gorgonzola?
Isn't it the name of one of the cats in aristocats? It is in french at least if memory serves
These are my sons Cream Cheese Jr and Kraft Singles
This is my sister, Dairylea.
I mean Leicester and Lester can be homophones.
"can be"? How else would you pronounce either?!
Foreigners often get tripped up by Leicester - "Lie-Chester" is a common effort.
Yeah thanks for Worcester as well.
Huh? 😛
I may only speak English, but I really don't speak whatever they're talking in England
I used to work in central London and it was always funny hearing Americans trying to pronounce place names.
"Can you tell us how to get to Lee-chester square?"
"You mean Leicester Square?"
They'd always pronounce the H in Buckingham Palace, but the way my nephew or niece said it "bucket and palace" was the best.
Yeah it's hard as a foreigner to wrap your head around it. Thankfully this guy has us covered
In my country the most common attempt is lei-Chester.
The missing Limburger baby.
Always fun how Americans pronounce "parmesan" as "parmezhan"
the original Italian is parmigiano, so a soft g/j sound is actually more accurate than a s/z sound
Yes on the first point - it's closer to how the Italians pronounce it. But Parmigiano and Parmesan are not the same word.
The English word "Parmesan" comes from the French word "Parmesan", which is pronounced, you guessed it, with a s/z sound.
The soft g/j is not more accurate, because it's a different word. It's an over-correction.
FWIW, the word was in English nearly a whole century before the first British colony in America. It really is a word that existed and folk in America changed the pronunciation of.
In our defense, Italians kept coming here and eating Parmesan. It makes sense we'd pronounce it closer to the Italian
I wonder if it came from all the italian immigrants that came over.
All the southern Italians. I point this out because standard Italian settled on a northern dialect as the standard. So the Italian those immigrants brought has some differences.
Parmezany!
Our unique pronunciation comes from Philadelphia, where they use the word "jawn" to mean "thing." They called it "that parma jawn", meaning like "that thing from parma" but the j became a zh over time.
source: I made it up
Yeah, but that's not unique to Americans or even the English language. In German we write it the same (Parmesan) and pronounce a soft s in that place.
All languages and country have all sorts of different historical names for foreign places or things. And that is fine. Except when Americans do it. Well and Germans calling Barcelona "Bazelona". That's just not okay.
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