Tuesday, February 08, 2011

Saying It

My father would pronounce the word 'pizza' as pitza. I always thought that a bit funny, knowing that the correct way was peetsah.

Now I find that the French pronounce it - same spelling as us - this way: pidza.

I guess if they won't ask me how we got the T sound from a word with no Ts in it, I won't ask them where they get the D from.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Germans pronounce it pitza even though it is spelled like pizza too. Darn fureners (foreigners).

Cerulean Bill said...

Now that's interesting -- because my father's family was German!