On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 18:17:10 -0500, Steve Wertz
wrote:

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 22:24:40 GMT, "Wayne Lundberg"
wrote:


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.

That's what I thought. So why are the brits pronouncing it "chow
chow"? shrug.

I guess there's not many UK posters here.....?

-sw

The primary reason would be that the Brits never have spoken other
people's language properly. Brits have always butchered the language
of other countries.