Jalapeños

[Mat]

Jolly pee nose

 

[The Dread Pirate]

I pronounce it Hala-Pen-Yo but to each their own ('Cept the people who pronounce it with a J they're just foolish)

 

[Cosimo]

It is hah-luh-peyn-yoh.

 

[Jonny69]

More chillis please mate

 

[Jez]

For me, it varies with different places.

So you agree that there is no hard and fast rule, and therefore either can be correct?

 

[Teki187]

I say hot green peppers

 

[TheMightyTen]

Does this all mean that we have to pronounce habaneros as Jab-a-neer-ose

I'm confused now

 

[paradigm]

So you agree that there is no hard and fast rule, and therefore either can be correct?

No, because as has been said, there is NO English version of the word Jalapeño. It has one pronunciation and one only.

 

[Nitrojan]

I cant believe people are arguing over a type of chili lol xD

 

[Theguy]

paa. you lot and your Hs instead of saying it the proper way. J allll the way i tell you

 

[semi-pro waster]

I cant believe people are arguing over a type of chili lol xD

You should try and get used to it if you are going to stick around, just about anything can be the source of an argument here.

 

[robmiller]

I Think it's because people in this country don't speak spanish, like the City and football club valencia, how many do you know pronounce it correctly?

Place names are totally different though, the same as we say "Spain" rather than "España", or "Prague" rather than "Praha", or any number of other examples.

It's even more evident in places where there are multiple languages spoken, or where the place has been ruled by different civilisations at different points in history; the capital of Kosovo, for example, is "Prishtinë" to Albanians but "Priština" to Serbs and "Prishtina" to English-speakers. Quite similar in pronunciation but in reality separate names.

 

[MookJong]

 

[Killa_ken]

It is pronounced Hala peen yo

I know because I've spoken to many mexicans in my time.

 

[2Thumbs]

Hal-eh-peen-yo...


On a stiiiiiick!

 

[i-bert]

You are nothing if not a model of consistency but I'm beginning to suspect you are secretly a Francophile and this oft-professed disdain for our Gallic chums is simply a cover up.

"hal-a-PAIN-yo" is also how I'd normally say it.

Thats the correct way to say it.The Spanish "e" is pronounced ayyy.

 

[Mr.Clark]

I'd say "hal-a-peen-oh"

Only I wouldn't, I can't spell how I'd pronounce hal - I'm tempted to say chal, but it's not the ch as in church, it's more Welsh than that. Ch as in chwarae.

 

[Vtec9k]

No, because as has been said, there is NO English version of the word Jalapeño. It has one pronunciation and one only.

That makes no sense. Think of all the accents and dialects jsut in the English speaking world, then try crossing language barriers and your going to have a lot of pronunciations.

There is tons of Venezuelans at my work and while they speak Spanish it's nothing like the Spanish speak.

 

[monkeyspank]

choritso