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The Big Little Fruit
Pronunciation Guide
An aid for the public
and the media alike that has arisen from the sheer lack of chat about
these estimable fruits. Below you’ll find ten of the most
frequently-mispronounced fruit names, as gleaned by BLF’s founder,
Debbie Hearn, from professional journalists and other human beings.
(Every blush spared. You know who you are!)
You might disagree with
these wussy-southerner pronunciations. if you’re in a position to do so,
you obviously care for culinary fruits already, so enjoy your righteous
indignation as much as you might relish your rolled r’s or pancake-flat
a’s!
If you can think of other fruits whose names are
often mispronounced,
email
Debbie here, giving a telephone number, for checking.
Capitals indicate the
stressed syllable. |