Hard ch like in church, then hard eye like your eye followed immediately
with hard O and te with soft e not like tea but lik elephant. Chayote... it
is not a squash, it is a tree grown fruit - seed inside, meat around the
seed, and protective skin. Fruit. Prepared like a vegetable.

"Steve Wertz" wrote in message
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I was reading a book written in the UK, that says the proper
pronunciatio of chayote squash (isn't it technically a gourd?) is
"chow-chow". Huh? How do you get "chow-chow" from "chayote".

How do you pronouce chayote? I always just said 'coyote' (as in the
dog), but without the ending 'e' sound. But then again, I've probably
never said it while around anyone who knew how it was pronounced (or
knew what I was really talking about).

-sw