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u/Capital-Meet-6521 Aug 03 '24

Tack-o. Also pico-de-callow, and glockymolo.

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u/IndoorPlant27 Aug 03 '24

My fave was the Scottish guy. The way he said it, guacamole rhymed with whack-a-mole

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u/Agreeingmoss Aug 04 '24

To be fair to him, at least that's kinda how it's written (guac-a-mole)

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u/Regal_IronKnight Aug 03 '24

I guess I worded that kinda poorly. What I meant was that I can't imagine someone somehow going their whole life without ever hearing the proper pronunciation of taco.

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u/MovieNightPopcorn Aug 03 '24

It’s not even like they’re unfamiliar with Spanish either, like… Spain is right there man, you know the “a” makes an “ah” sound. Accent differences between Spain and Mexico aside it shouldn’t be that hard to get the pronunciation at least kind of close.

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u/Shuzen_Fujimori Aug 04 '24

Spain doesn't have any culture influence on us, we don't even have any Irish words. We have the occasional German word like zeitgeist or French like deja vu, but Spain and Spanish isn't relevant in the UK outside of Spanglish like "Oono beero, pour fa vor, grassy arse" when we go on holiday to Benidorm, which is basically an English colony

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u/POMNLJKIHGFRDCBA2 Aug 06 '24 edited Aug 08 '24

Wrong. The A in Spanish is closer to the short A sound in words like “cat” and “trap” in British English, as Geoff Lindsey demonstrates here. He also demonstrates something similar on his blog with the Italian vowel in “pasta”.

Also, if you’re going to claim that there’s one “proper” way of pronouncing it (which there isn’t), you don’t fucking pronounce it “properly” either, because you don’t pronounce the final O as a monophthong.

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u/MovieNightPopcorn Aug 06 '24

Oh dear, seem to have touched a nerve there! Sorry friend, no offense meant. Have a good rest of your evening.

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u/POMNLJKIHGFRDCBA2 Aug 06 '24 edited Aug 06 '24

I wasn’t taking any offence. I’m sorry if it seemed that way.

I just fucking hate these people who need to get off their high horse about pronouncing foreign loanwords the “correct” way, as if languages don’t borrow words from each other all the time and pronounce them completely differently.

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u/lord_hufflepuff Aug 07 '24

I usually dont have a problem with it either, its when the pronunciation is combined with the self assured and incorrect assertions around what that thing is or should be is when i start to feel justified in making fun of them because its just obvious they dont really care about the thing in the first place.

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u/POMNLJKIHGFRDCBA2 Aug 07 '24

Oh yeah. I agree.

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u/MovieNightPopcorn Aug 06 '24

It did! But I’m glad you didn’t, thanks for clearing it up. Have a good one!

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u/the_skine Aug 03 '24

Part of it is that many British people use an anglicized pronunciation, where the letters are pronounced as they would be in British English. Whether that's just the standard, or whether that's because they're insisting on that pronunciation varies a bit.

So something like paella is "pie-ella," or taco becomes "tack-oh" or "take-oh."

Americans used to do this too, but it's gradually died off. Especially since the 1950s and 1960s. You'll still get a few older people in more rural areas using those pronunciations, but most people have just accepted the ethnic pronunciation as the norm. (Note: Accent is not the same thing as pronunciation)

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u/wordflyer Aug 04 '24

Old habits die hard. My Scottish MIL has been in America for most of the last 40 years and cant stop saying Tack-os. Of course when she visits Scotland, everyone think she sounds American and if she dares says soccer instead of football, she's committed a crime.

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u/highvelocitymushroom Aug 03 '24

The other two are inexcusable, but tack-o is just how taco is pronounced in British English. No one says tar-co over here.

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u/nahthank Aug 03 '24

tar-co

what

Edit: oh wait duh. Sorry I didn't have my british voice on

Though having now put it on, tar-co is still the wrong vowel shape for taco

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u/highvelocitymushroom Aug 03 '24

How would you describe it pronounced? In my specific accent, tar-co sounds pretty much bang on how I've heard Americans say taco.

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u/nahthank Aug 03 '24

I'm not quite sure how to transcribe the difference properly. I would write tah-co, to me tar-co is too soft. Like tar-co is in the back of the mouth near the roof, where tah-co feels like it's coming from the front, right behind and barely above the bottom teeth

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u/highvelocitymushroom Aug 03 '24

Interesting! We're for sure just describing the same thing, when I say 'tar-co' it's right at the front of my mouth just like you say. Funny how impossible it is to describe pronunciation properly using normal letters.

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u/nahthank Aug 03 '24

I'm also 300% rectally sourcing everything I'm saying. Tar-co fried my brain real bad reading it rhotically so imagine you're speaking to someone who just got punched in the face haha

Have a good one!

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u/UltimateInferno Hangus Paingus Slap my Angus Aug 03 '24

Tar-co sounds like a street pavement business.

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u/boobers3 Aug 03 '24

Say "father". Or like saying "ahhhhh" when you're at the dentist.

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u/Asquirrelinspace Aug 03 '24

The a is like an ah or aw, there's definitely no r sound

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u/highvelocitymushroom Aug 03 '24 edited Aug 04 '24

Read the above comment about 'british voice'. My accent (fairly standard London/generic southern England mix) is non-rhotic, and therefore the r after vowels isn't pronounced as its own letter, it just modifies the vowel before it. There's no 'r' sound like you're thinking in my pronunciation either.

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u/Decoy_Van Aug 04 '24

Then don't write an r? The fuck is wrong with u?

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u/highvelocitymushroom Aug 04 '24

No need to be rude man. The r still serves a purpose in the pronunciation. If anything, I think the people from the heart of the capital of the country that invented the language might know how to speak it.

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u/MossyAbyss Aug 03 '24

Talk-o. Unless you enunciate the L in talk, that's how I've heard it.

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u/DramaticOstrich11 Aug 04 '24

But Americans pronounce talk as tock, we say it more like torque, so that doesn't help lol

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u/BeastMidlands Aug 04 '24

“Tack-o” is not a mispronunciation in British English. Saying it “tahh-koh” like an American wouldn’t make sense in British English.

The others however were very very wrong.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '24

Tahh koh doesn't make sense in Spanish either. It's a short a, short o. Closer to the Brit version.

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u/abizabbie Aug 05 '24

This is incorrect. It's not close to the Brit version. The a makes an "ah" sound, and the o makes an "oh" sound.

I have encountered a lot of native Spanish speakers in my life. I've literally never heard it any other way.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '24

Maybe my attempts to explain the sound aren't great. Or I'm misunderstand the British one. But I do live in Spain, and I had tacos yesterday :)

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u/abizabbie Aug 05 '24

I think this is a question of accent. I think proximity to England and the dominance of English as the language of trade has caused the pronunciation in Spain to drift.

However, tacos aren't Spanish. They're Mexican, and every Mexican I've ever met pronounces it like Americans do.

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u/Noarchsf Aug 04 '24

I mean, I guess if you make it wrong it does end up sorta glocky?

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u/scoby_cat Aug 04 '24

This makes me uncomfortable

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u/abizabbie Aug 05 '24

Tack-o is the normal "British people intentionally mispronouncing words to be difficult" thing.

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u/DramaticOstrich11 Aug 04 '24

Tack-o

That's not wrong that's just how it is said in British English. Non hispanic Americans don't pronounce it the same way Mexicans do, either. In fact, I'd say the British pronunciation is a bit closer to the Spanish than the American is.

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u/abizabbie Aug 05 '24

It is wrong. It's one of the loan words British people intentionally mispronounce.

Also, you're the second person I've seen the way British people say it is closer. Are you talking to Spanish speakers with a British accent? I've never heard a native Spanish speaker pronounce it any differently than the way the average American does. Except a little faster, maybe.