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Answer to a question on The Chase was ‘nougat’, the contestant had it right, pronouncing it ‘noogar’. Me and the missus both said at the same time that we’ve always called it ‘nugget’ and would Bradley have said “wrong” had we answered with that pronunciation. Rightly or wrongly (it’s wrongly, I know), it’s always been nugget to me and always will be. Anyone else on the nugget side with us?
I’m with you. Pink & White
Sorry it’s nougat , same as Caroline Street
This is an example where someone has deemed there to be a right and wrong answer whereby both pronunciations are used, the version without pronouncing the 't' being closer to the French root of the word. Many so-called linguistic rules are nothing of the sort but simply the most popular versions recorded by certain individuals at a particular point in time and often in a particular geographical area. Bizarrely, some of those recording usage decided to the letter 'b' to Norman French words that entered the English language so that the words were more akin to their Latin root even though the French Norman word did not contain that letter e.g. doubt, debt and subtle.
There are a myriad of other wacky things that were foisted upon us at school that don't really hold water as the ONLY way to write and speak if you delve deeply into Linguistics.
I grew up calling it 'nuggat'
What was the question?
One of my favourite cereals of a morning is a bowl of Golden Noogars.
It’s a Noogar from me but Nuggets for gold & cereals
Always been nugget with me, but I've never liked it whatever it's called.
Thought this was a thread about that pillock Graham who always comes crying over here whenever the Colonel bans him off his board.
While we are here, how are people saying chipotle?
Another French word that every news reader,except the French deputy mayor understandably,pronounced wrongly was Annecy.There was an horrific event there very recently and it was pronounced Ann-e-cy by UK news readers.The correct pronounciation is Anncy.In French e is silent unless there is an accent over it.