{"id":55,"date":"2008-12-10T14:55:22","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T18:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/?p=55"},"modified":"2008-12-10T14:55:22","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T18:55:22","slug":"la-pronuncia-part-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/la-pronuncia-part-three\/","title":{"rendered":"La Pronuncia, part three!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had not originally planned a part three, but as I received an interesting question by e-mail from Andrew I thought other people might find my reply helpful, so I\u2019m publishing it here as a mini-blog.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Andrew asked: “How do you pronounce sch as in bruschetta, please?”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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During the time I lived in the U.K. a lot of everyday Italian\u00a0snacks and drinks such as cappuccino<\/strong>, panini<\/strong> and\u00a0bruschetta<\/strong> became\u00a0increasingly popular\u00a0and yes it did offend my Italian ears to hear and read the strange variety of spellings and pronunciations used!\u00a0Of course us Italians do the same thing to English words and it has become very\u00a0‘trendy’ in Italy\u00a0lately to use terms like fitness, wellness, weekend, shopping<\/strong> and so on, usually with an invisibly vowel (fitnessa, weekenda etc.) attached to the end because Italians find it difficult to pronounce words ending in a consonant! <\/span><\/p>\n

In England my (English) husband once insisted that I pointed out to the proprietor of a little caf\u00e9 that the menu included paninis<\/span><\/strong>. Panini<\/strong> is the plural of panino <\/strong>(literally little bread, or sandwich) which meant that the cafe was offering what would be the equivalent in English of sandwicheses<\/em>!\u00a0The proprietor took it very well and the next time we visited the cafe we noticed that the menu had been corrected to panini<\/strong>. The funniest example that we saw was chalked up on a pub menu board\u00a0proudly offering Tiramuso<\/strong>, which in Italian means pull a face!<\/strong>\u00a0I think what they meant to write was Tiramis\u00f9<\/strong>, which means literally tira mi s\u00f9<\/strong>, or ‘pull me up’ because it is a sweet indulgent dessert that is meant to be what you would call a ‘pick-me-up’.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Regarding\u00a0the question: “How do you pronounce sch as in bruschetta, please?”<\/em> well bruschetta<\/strong> is probably one of the most mispronounced Italian word that I heard used in the U.K.. English people tend to pronounce it like broosh<\/span>etta <\/strong>and that is where you might get a bit confused. However if you\u00a0carefully follow\u00a0the pronunciation rule from my blog,\u00a0<\/span>“sc before an<\/span> i <\/span><\/em>or an<\/span> e <\/span><\/em>sounds like<\/span> sh <\/span><\/em>in sh<\/span>eep:<\/span> <\/span><\/em>e.g. sc<\/span>i<\/strong>, usc<\/span>ita<\/strong>, sc<\/span>elta<\/strong>,<\/span><\/em> <\/span><\/em>in front of a, o, u, <\/em>or h <\/em>however sc <\/em>sounds like sk <\/em>in sk<\/span>in: e.g. scarpa, scuola, scopa, scherzo<\/span><\/strong>“<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/em>and of course<\/span> <\/span><\/em>brusch<\/span>etta<\/span><\/strong>,<\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/strong>you will now understand exactly how it should be pronounced. The correct pronunciation is broosketta<\/strong>. <\/strong>And of course don\u2019t forget to roll your r<\/strong>\u2019s!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had not originally planned a part three, but as I received an interesting question by e-mail from Andrew I thought other people might find my reply helpful, so I\u2019m publishing it here as a mini-blog. \u00a0 Andrew asked: “How do you pronounce sch as in bruschetta, please?” \u00a0 During the time I lived in…<\/p>\n

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