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You've Been Pronouncing These Foods Wrong This Whole Time

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We love how diverse our food options are in 2017. From chorizo to açaí, our menus would be poorer without these delicious imports – we just wish we knew how to pronounce some of their names.

Want some pho and bao swimming in sriracha sauce with a side of quinoa? Then you better be prepared to spend a few hours discussing (possibly arguing over) which of your fellow diners is saying these words wrong.

Have no fear, though; we've identified some of the most commonly mispronounced foods out there and are here to help you say them correctly. No more ifs, buts or dodgy pronunciations from overconfident TV chefs – this is how you say these words in the UK.

Click through to get the verdict on the most mispronounced foods around...

Sriracha

see-rah-cha

Yes there are two 'r's there, but the founder of sriracha himself, David Tran says the first 'r' is silent.

Açaí

ah-sa-EE

We're not 100% sure what açaí is either, but we do know that this originally Portuguese word should have stress on the final EE.

Chorizo

chuh-REE-zoh or chorr-EE-soh

Yes, that annoying girl you went to uni with might insist that on her gap year in the Basque country it was pronounced shoh-REE-tho.

But, according to Oxford Dictionaries, in the UK the standard correct pronunciation stresses the REE and can either end -zoh or -soh.

Bruschetta

bruu-SKET-uh

You don't have to go all the way with this one bruu, but the correct Italian pronunciation of this antipasti does have a hard 'c' despite the 'h'.

Bao

b-ow

Deceptively simple, the only important thing to remember is the name for this delicious bun rhymes with now, not know. Remember: "Take a bow".

Pho

fuh

Yep, it's actually meant to be pronounced 'fuh', to rhyme with duh. Though we don't think this one is obvious at all...

Quinoa

keen-wah

If you've managed to shop at Waitrose without hearing at least one person saying this one wrong, we salute you.

Espresso

es-press-o

Possibly the most exasperating mispronunciation in the UK. "There's no 'x' in there, Jonathan!" There just isn't.

Chipotle

tchee-POHT-lay

Again, this is slightly different from what you might hear in Mexico, where they pronounce the middle syllable as POT (like...a pot). But Oxford Dictionaries has the British English pronunciation as POHT, to rhyme with boat.

Nutella

nut-ella

You may have been shocked by the news that Nutella itself decreed the delicious chocolatey spread should be pronounced 'newt-ella'. Ew, indeed.

However they quickly followed up that this is only for Americans; Nutella UK pronounces it 'nut-ella'.

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