Friday, April 28, 2017

How do you say it?

Difficult to find anything to blog about other then brexit and the forthcoming election, and God knows I've already had more than enough of both those subjects. So, big non-political story of the moment seems to be - how do you pronounce chorizo - the Spanish spicy sausage.  Back in the Middle Ages some Spanish king or other spoke with a lisp and so it became "the done thing" for everybody else to pronounce the "s" sounds as "th", and it remains so to this day.  However, the Spanish speakers in Latin America continued and continue to pronounce the "s" sound as "s".  So there are two correct answers to the question.  A Spaniard will pronounce it "choreetho" and a Latina American Spanish speaker as "choreesso". Both are acceptable. What you mustn't do under any circumstances is pronounce it "choritso"

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