Scallops! Correcting other people's speech?

[StephenH]

People have problems with Two-Sheds?

Yes - they take up too much room on the allotment!

[jennadarby]

I am from Maine and grew up right on the coast, working in local restaurants and serving scallops, eating them, cooking them and correcting people's mispronunciation of the word all my life! So yes, I would, and still do, correct people's speech when it comes to this word! The original word comes from Old English and today still in Britain it is pronounced "scol-ups" which makes sense to me, it is spelled with two ll"s, just like all, ball, tall, wall, etc. All New Englanders, from the fisherman who fish for them (my own son in law is a scallop fisherman out of New Bedford, Mass) to the stores who sell them, to the restaurants who serve them, to the locals who are the descendents of the pilgrims, pronounce the word correctly, which is SCOL-UP! Don't come here for vacation and say "scal-up" unless you want to be laughed at or mocked behind your back!

QUOTE=ddiogyn;737474]At the supermarket fish counter today i asked for some scallops (which i pronounced to rhyme with 'pallets'). The person behind the counter replied "You mean scollops, it's pronounced SCOL-LOPS" (rhyming with 'dollops').

I found this quite rude, but just ignored it and repeated my request with the 'correct' pronunciation (my OED lists both pronunciations as acceptable, although i am aware scallops-rhyming-with-dollops is more common).

How do you pronounce 'scallops'?

Would you ever correct a complete stranger's pronunciation/grammar/anything?[/QUOTE]

[Tripmeup]

I am from Maine and grew up right on the coast, working in local restaurants and serving scallops, eating them, cooking them and correcting people's mispronunciation of the word all my life! So yes, I would, and still do, correct people's speech when it comes to this word! The original word comes from Old English and today still in Britain it is pronounced "scol-ups" which makes sense to me, it is spelled with two ll"s, just like all, ball, tall, wall, etc. All New Englanders, from the fisherman who fish for them (my own son in law is a scallop fisherman out of New Bedford, Mass) to the stores who sell them, to the restaurants who serve them, to the locals who are the descendents of the pilgrims, pronounce the word correctly, which is SCOL-UP! Don't come here for vacation and say "scal-up" unless you want to be laughed at or mocked behind your back!

QUOTE=ddiogyn;737474]At the supermarket fish counter today i asked for some scallops (which i pronounced to rhyme with 'pallets'). The person behind the counter replied "You mean scollops, it's pronounced SCOL-LOPS" (rhyming with 'dollops').

I found this quite rude, but just ignored it and repeated my request with the 'correct' pronunciation (my OED lists both pronunciations as acceptable, although i am aware scallops-rhyming-with-dollops is more common).

How do you pronounce 'scallops'?

Would you ever correct a complete stranger's pronunciation/grammar/anything?

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Well, that was helpful!!

[veggiechicken]

Give me my scallop-shell of quiet,
My staff of faith to walk upon,
My script of joy, immortal diet,
My bottle of salvation,
My gown of glory, hope's true gage,
And thus I'll take my pilgrimage.

Sir Walter Raleigh ( written in his cell in the Tower)

Wonder whether Sir Walt had a discussion about pronunciation before his head was chopped off

[Hazel at the Hill]

We have a load of deliberate mis-pronunciations in our house that we've picked up and find funny.

Like it's not 'fOOd', it's 'fUd' after the co-op ads and that lovely Scottish man at the end ('Co-operative - good with fUd')
And we had a friend who once reported that their friend said 'this is a lovely sponge cake, did you make it yourself' but said 'spOnge' and not 'spUnge' - so cake is always spOnge now.
I've got a friend whose sales job involves meeting lots of new people for maybe half an hour at a time. He plays a game where he uses one word with a slightly unusual pronunciation, and sees how long it takes for the people he is with to start pronouncing it the same way....

[Mikey]

I have corrected peoples pronunciation of Miele before now, but I wouldn't say 'its actually pronounced like this', I'm more subtle than that. I prefer to say it back to them with the correct pronunciation, this way they might change how they say it themselves.

I do have a regular customer though that persists and calls it me-el instead of me-le as it should be. It grates me but I would never overtly correct them.

[veggiechicken]

.........so it turns into a melee

[Mikey]

No more me-lay.

[veggiechicken]

........or just a Meal...........

[Mikey]

........or just a Meal...........

Wind up merchant...

[veggiechicken]

Is that pronounced "Wined" or "Winned" ?

[Mikey]

Surely that depends on how much you've had to drink VC?

[veggiechicken]

Ooh my head she "whined".
How bizarre, English pronunciation can be

[out in the cold]

We have a load of deliberate mis-pronunciations in our house that we've picked up and find funny.

Like it's not 'fOOd', it's 'fUd' after the co-op ads and that lovely Scottish man at the end ('Co-operative - good with fUd')
And we had a friend who once reported that their friend said 'this is a lovely sponge cake, did you make it yourself' but said 'spOnge' and not 'spUnge' - so cake is always spOnge now.
I've got a friend whose sales job involves meeting lots of new people for maybe half an hour at a time. He plays a game where he uses one word with a slightly unusual pronunciation, and sees how long it takes for the people he is with to start pronouncing it the same way....

We used to all call Spaghetti Bolognaise "Pisketti Ong-o-lais" in our house, as this was how my young sister said it when she was about 3 or 4. It just kinda stuck...

There is also a Scottish way of pronouncing the name of the colour that is a light Brown (beige) where we say "bee-j" and which I have heard non Scots pronounce "bhei-zhe" (it doesn't have a Z in it though...??)

Also, there is the great debate surrounding the major part of a Devon Cream Tea. Is it pronounced as a "skohn" or a "sc-own"? Personally I am in the "skohn" camp, as the other way of pronouncing it is the same as the place where Scottish kings sat to be crowned near Perth.

[veggiechicken]

What about "scon"? That's what I'd say