Another "how do you say it?"

[Tangerine]

I say Mah naise. Seriously. Clearly it is spelled MAYOnnaise. If I shortened it, I would pronounce it mayo, not Mah. It's all in my nose too, like a good Chicagoan. :tongue_smilie:

 

Also, my daughter pointed out to me recently that I say "bolth" for "both".

 

I have been knocked off my neutral mid-western pronunciation pedestal. :glare:

[Impish]

MAYOnnaise.

[Caitilin]

I say something more like "mayn aise." if I talk slowly and with emphasis, I will say "may oh naise."

[Laurie4b]

I say may-un-aise, but sometimes it's fast enough that it could sound like man-aze. (the "un" is a fast schwa syllable)

 

Both , long o, no "l" here.

 

Grew up in mid-Atlantic region.

[elegantlion]

We call it Miracle Whip. :tongue_smilie:

 

But to the other, I say it like you, perhaps without so much nasal, a little more drawl. I generally shorten it to mayo.

[Tangerine]

We call it Miracle Whip. :tongue_smilie:

 

Around here, I could see this becoming some monster spin-off, resulting in bans, and reprimands, ending with a disappearing thread and people stumbling around other threads, disappointed they'd missed it. ;)

[Veritaserum]

may-uh-naze

 

Foul stuff. :tongue_smilie:

[Berta]

I call it Man-aise. My husband has pointed out for seven years that I say it wrong lol..

[Farrar]

I just try not to say it at all. Blech. :D

[justamouse]

mayo

[Tangerine]

I call it Man-aise. My husband has pointed out for seven years that I say it wrong lol..

This is almost how I say it. If I were to say "man" it would be down in my throat, but the "man" in my mayonnaise is all up in my nose. And that was a very strange sentence. :001_huh:

[Ellie]

I call it Man-aise. My husband has pointed out for seven years that I say it wrong lol..

That's how I say it, as well. And everyone else I have ever known.

 

I remember how struck I was when I realized that although most people IME say "lawn more," it is actually a "lawn MOW-er," as in, you know, it *mows* the grass.:lol:

[Carrie12345]

May nays.

 

All of a sudden, I've been noticing how people say "important" on TV. Their Ts are always enunciated. Mine are in the back of my throat. I guess I don't find them all that... important. :tongue_smilie:

[Nakia]

I just try not to say it at all. Blech. :D

 

Ditto! :ack2:

[happi duck]

We call it Miracle Whip. :tongue_smilie:

 

But to the other, I say it like you, perhaps without so much nasal, a little more drawl. I generally shorten it to mayo.

 

I grew up with Miracle Whip but we called it mayo, so I thought it was mayo. The first time I had real mayo I nearly gagged!

 

May-naise

[mrscopterdoc]

from the South, and I say it "man-aise" or "may-o" for short.

[Carpe]

may-YAW-nays

 

Also Miracle Whip :lol:

[Robyn]

That's how I say it, as well. And everyone else I have ever known.

 

I remember how struck I was when I realized that although most people IME say "lawn more," it is actually a "lawn MOW-er," as in, you know, it *mows* the grass.:lol:

 

 

Mā-ya-nāz and lawn-mo-wah :D

[eternalknot]

I say it: MAY-oh-naise

 

I don't think I've ever shortened it to mayo. It's not something I eat or reference with any regularity, so on the rare occasion it comes up in conversation I say (or read!) it as three distinct syllables.

[Jeannie in NJ]

I say man - aise (originally from Texas, don't know if that makes a difference or not)

[Diana B]

I say something more like "mayn aise." if I talk slowly and with emphasis, I will say "may oh naise."

 

:iagree:

 

This is me exactly. I'm in Oregon with lots of Wisconsin family influencing my speech patterns.

 

ETA: After reading through all the posts, I realize that when I'm reading it I will enunciate it a little better. Maybe because I'm seeing all those letters?

Edited July 29, 2011 by djbartch

[RahRah]

I'm a native NY'er, so it's mayo...or a schmear....any deli in NY, they know what a schmear is --- in the am with a bagel, a schmear is cream cheese....any other time, with a sandwich, it's mayo. If you want mustard, you have to say mustard. No one in MO seems to know though, so you have to say mayonnaise - though 'mayo' they get, but that too often means miracle whip, not real mayonnaise, so you have to define which you really want! Odd thing here is margarine is also called butter.....ugh.....no butter, is butter....margarine is margarine, don't give me margarine when I asked for butter!

[K&Rs Mom]

man-aise here - and I can't figure out why dc get mad at dh when he says mayo, I'd accept that as the short-form (I'm from MI and dh from MD)

[Lady Florida.]

Around here, I could see this becoming some monster spin-off, resulting in bans, and reprimands, ending with a disappearing thread and people stumbling around other threads, disappointed they'd missed it. ;)

 

Without a doubt. ;)

 

I say may uhn aize

[gardening momma]

I say "may-uhn-ayse" if I'm trying to pronounce it correctly, and "ma-nayse" (short a, then long a) if I say it more quickly.

[foxbridgeacademy]

Also from midwest, but I say man-aze, course we Hoosiers have to be a little different!

[k2bdeutmeyer]

another in the "man-aise" crowd

[JeneralMom]

somewhere in between may-uh-naze and may-oh-naze.

[Ellie]

I grew up with Miracle Whip but we called it mayo, so I thought it was mayo. The first time I had real mayo I nearly gagged!

I probably grew up with Miracle Whip, too. And the first time I tasted real mayo, my mouth went, "YES!!!!" It was like a religious experience, lol.

 

Today I make my own, and cannot tolerate either Miracle Whip or store-bought mayo. :ack2:

[ukfan78]

We call it man-aise here in Kentucky! Never heard it any other way.