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Terms Privacy Policy. All rights reserved. The age-old debate: ter-meric or too-meric? English-Ireland top end. I keep hearing variations in the pronunciation of turmeric. In either case, the first part of the first syllable is pronounced exactly as in 'turm', equivalent to the word 'turn' but with 'm', not 'n'. Here, the first part of the first syllable is pronounced as one would pronounce 'tune' but with 'm', not 'n'.
I don't understand why anyone would pronounce the word as if it were spelt 'tumeric'. Is there a regional pattern to be discovered? Glenfarclas Senior Member Chicago.
Click to expand Often heard here too. Both turm- and -urme- are uncommon and I think the alternative pronunciation came from simply misreading. The eye is easily fooled. Edinburgher Senior Member Scotland. I've been meaning for some time to start a thread on the very same question myself, but was afraid of being derided as a pedant.
I've also been wont to dismiss it as uneducated, but too many people whom I would not consider uneducated, and who therefore ought to know better, mispronounce it. I guess it must be a bit like "monkey see, monkey do", except that it's "monkey hear, monkey say". Last edited: Nov 16, Edinburgher said:. I think Edinburgher has the answer - "monkey see, monkey do" - I remember calling it "toomerik" until, about a year later, I read the label I have long suspected that the pronunciation of "tumor" has some influence on the alternate pronunciation of "turmeric", though of course there is no connection between the two words.
Many words that have multiple r's seem to show a trend towards "dissimilation": dropping one of the r's usually the first. And it makes for a great face mask Consider this case closed! Now go order your golden latte without shame.
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