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comedy clubber · ‎08-01-2018

The word babcia is pronounced as "bobcha" not as "bobseea" as David pronounced it. If he or Tony had prepped for the show they would have learned that. So tired of hosts not prepping. My all time favorite though is Alberti murdering the word tiramisu. Oh well, please prep.

Also, what he made is not an authentic babka.

Kachina624 · ‎03-10-2010

How do you pronounce tiramisu? I suppose there are more serious sins one could commit than mispronouncing an obscure food term.

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odie96 · ‎08-09-2018

Not if you're doing this for a living. I flinch when I hear a bad grammatical error or mispronuncation!!! Things like these errors should be addressed as soon as posssible! It's a bad reflection on the company and the hosts.

QVCkitty1 · ‎05-23-2015

Totally agree !!

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eddyandme · ‎09-24-2011

@comedy clubber wrote:
The word babcia is pronounced as "bobcha" not as "bobseea" as David pronounced it. If he or Tony had prepped for the show they would have learned that. So tired of hosts not prepping. My all time favorite though is Alberti murdering the word tiramisu. Oh well, please prep.
Also, what he made is not an authentic babka.

As children we always pronounced it as bap-ka; golumkees were called hul-lup-see: I mention that 'cause not sure if the term for grandmother differs due to mispronunciation or nationality, Russian vs Polish.

I do agree with you re prepping and proper pronunciation: no excuse for poor presentations - that's their job!

loriqvc · ‎11-06-2011

@comedy clubber wrote:
The word babcia is pronounced as "bobcha" not as "bobseea" as David pronounced it. If he or Tony had prepped for the show they would have learned that. So tired of hosts not prepping. My all time favorite though is Alberti murdering the word tiramisu. Oh well, please prep.
Also, what he made is not an authentic babka.

@comedy clubber - David specifically mentioned that he wasn't sure of the pronunciation of the original word that gave us the current "babka" and apologized for that. Since this was only part of a trivia question, it also didn't have much of an impact on either the recipe or the show overall, and David has mentioned many times that he does not prepare the trivia questions, so it's hard to place all the blame on him.

It would be much more helpful if you gave feedback like this in a kind way instead of an accusatory way. And you could definitely visit David's Facebook page to share this detail with him directly, since he is very unlikely to see your comment here.

loriqvc · ‎11-06-2011

@Kachina624 wrote:
How do you pronounce tiramisu? I suppose there are more serious sins one could commit than mispronouncing an obscure food term.

@Kachina624 - The emphasis should be on the final syllable rather than the penultimate one . . . but this mispronunciation is so prevalent now that it is listed as alternate pronunciation in most dictionaries.

RespectLife · ‎02-27-2012

@comedy clubber wrote:
The word babcia is pronounced as "bobcha" not as "bobseea" as David pronounced it. If he or Tony had prepped for the show they would have learned that. So tired of hosts not prepping. My all time favorite though is Alberti murdering the word tiramisu. Oh well, please prep.
Also, what he made is not an authentic babka.

How could you possibly know that David, Chef Tony or any hosts do NOT prep for the show?

From what has been said by the hosts, they all come in way earlier than their air time to do exactly that.

Different people from different areas pronounce words differently! My Italian family pronouces ricotta in a totally different way than what is widely heard. That doesn't make it wrong, just different.

Someone has already posted that they pronounce it different than you do.

Even if a host got totally tongue tied on a word on air, I wouldn't make a big deal out of it. We all do it sometimes, especially when talking non-stop!

Also, dishes from different regions are made in many ways. Again, doesn't make them NOT authentic...just not the way you or your family made it.

Want to discuss the 90 million ways to make homemade spag sauce and especially meatballs? We will all claim ours as the AUTHENTIC version! LOL

luvmybeetle · ‎08-10-2013

I also cringe about mispronouncing words. When Tony pronounced Bobka the wrong way I couldn't understand why and David should have been told how to pronounce it by the staff. If the hosts prep for the show then they should know what they are talking about. If you come from a European ancestry and your grandparents speak that language you would normally be able to pronounce something like this reasonably. But Tony slaughtered it. I agree David should have learned how to pronounce it before the show.

LdyBugz · ‎03-10-2010

I am of Polish descent. My paternal grandparents immigrated from Poland. My father spoke the language fluently as did his siblings. My father, aunt, uncle and all the grandchildren in the family lovingly pronounced Bobcia as “Bob-chee”. I believe the Polish spelling of grandfather is dziadek. We lovingly called our grandfather “Jah-dek” or “Jah-jah”.

I don’t think it really matters how these words should be pronounced. There are different dialects, customs and slang versions of words in every language. What really matters, to me anyways, are the terms of endearment we used for our grandparents. I do not recall them ever correcting our pronunciation.

FWIW, we pronounced Golumpki or Golabki as “gah-woom-key”.

~LdyBugz