topic Re: Chipotle in Kitchen

Chipotle

Mothertrucker — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 11:44:26 GMT

How do you pronounce this word? I am in Southern California, where we say Chi po TLAY

Just watched a Diners Drive ins and Dives from a Connecticut restaraunt where everyone was pronouncing it Chi POL Tay..

Is this a regional thing? Just wondering....

Re: Chipotle

debic — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 12:33:50 GMT

@Mothertrucker wrote:
How do you pronounce this word? I am in Southern California, where we say Chi po TLAY

Just watched a Diners Drive ins and Dives from a Connecticut restaraunt where everyone was pronouncing it Chi POL Tay..

Is this a regional thing? Just wondering....

I say chi pol tay. It probably is regional, I say it that way as that's the way I first heard it pronounced.

*ETA* Wiki basically says you're right. chi-poht-lay;

Re: Chipotle

momtochloe — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 12:40:37 GMT

Whenever I watch any cooking shows they pronounce it like you do mothertrucker and I think whenever I have gone to one (it's been a while) that is how they pronounce it as well.

Re: Chipotle

Mothertrucker — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 13:39:01 GMT

What region are you in debc?

Re: Chipotle

debic — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 14:07:45 GMT

@Mothertrucker wrote:
What region are you in debc?

I guess you'd say the Midwest, although my pronunciation is strictly from cooking shows.

Re: Chipotle

KYToby — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 14:18:07 GMT

You are pronouncing it correctly. Those pronouncing it otherwise are mispronouncing it by transposing the T and the L. This is not a regional thing; it is an issue pronouncing foreign languages

Re: Chipotle

NickNack1 — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 14:25:13 GMT

@Mothertrucker wrote:
How do you pronounce this word? I am in Southern California, where we say Chi po TLAY

Just watched a Diners Drive ins and Dives from a Connecticut restaraunt where everyone was pronouncing it Chi POL Tay..

Is this a regional thing? Just wondering....

I'm in East Tennessee and say Chi POLT lay.

Re: Chipotle

SusieQ_2 — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 14:39:57 GMT

I eat at Chipotle a few times a month. We pronounce it Chi-poht-lay. The other pronunciation doesn't make sense to me since you'd have to switch the letters to make that correct. I don't think it's so much a regional thing as just a mispronunciation.

Re: Chipotle

HonnyBrown — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 15:08:14 GMT

Do you remember the Jack in the Box commercial about 10 years ago that featured the new Chipotle Cheeseburger? It had a kid trying to teach Jack how to say "chipotle." Got his mouth all twisted.

Re: Chipotle

Citrine1 — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 19:13:28 GMT

I'm from Philadelphia and, like NickNack, I say Chi POLT lay. I know it makes no sense to say it with two L's as there is only one L in the word, but this is how I've always said it. Most people I know say it the same way. I don't know why.

Re: Chipotle

Mothertrucker — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 19:51:24 GMT

Yeah, on this DDD everyone pronounced it the same way, which is what led me to think, aha! ..."regional"....this has been enlightening.... Sometimes I hear how they say the word "Worcestershire" or how some pronounce "paprika" .... "Pappereeka", and I get curious

We tend to think we Californians have "no accent", but, like, hey! We know totally for sure that isn't so, huh?

Re: Chipotle

momtochloe — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 21:42:40 GMT

@Mothertrucker wrote:
Yeah, on this DDD everyone pronounced it the same way, which is what led me to think, aha! ..."regional"....this has been enlightening.... Sometimes I hear how they say the word "Worcestershire" or how some pronounce "paprika" .... "Pappereeka", and I get curious

We tend to think we Californians have "no accent", but, like, hey! We know totally for sure that isn't so, huh?

As far as I am concerned, Giada deLaurentiis has cornered the market on accents. Half the time I am like "when did we start pronouncing (insert word) like that?" . . .

And ps, I personally find Worcestershire completely unpronouncable . . .

Re: Chipotle

dancingwoman — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 23:45:27 GMT

*ETA* Wiki basically says you're right. chi-poht-lay;

This is how I say it and I live in SW Colorado...DW