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Chuck Fiedler
 
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Default How to pronounce Chayote?

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 18:17:10 -0500, Steve Wertz
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>On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 22:24:40 GMT, "Wayne Lundberg"
> wrote:
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>>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.