On Jun 30, 9:05�am, "James Silverton" >
wrote:
> �wrote �on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:04:22 -0700
> (PDT):
>
> > Here's a link: �http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turmeric
> > Whenever I hear it pronounced "tumeric", I can't help thinking
> > of tumors.
> > Shouldn't professional chefs, food scientists, writers and
> > critics learn the proper names of their ingredients?
>
> While you are correct, it's a pretty common misspelling. Even if Google
> says "Did you mean turmeric", there were 317,000 hits, altho' there were
> 3,140,000 for "turmeric". Those who spell it tumeric probably are those
> who pronounce it "too....".

WTF are you babbling about???