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[Mothertrucker]

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....

[debic]

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@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....

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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;

[momtochloe]

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.

[Mothertrucker]

What region are you in debc?

[debic]

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@Mothertrucker wrote:

What region are you in debc?

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

[KYToby]

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

[NickNack1]

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@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....

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

[SusieQ_2]

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. 

[HonnyBrown]

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.

[Citrine1]

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.