{"id":51737,"date":"2015-07-14T23:20:33","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T23:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/14\/why-is-quinoa-pronounced-like-it-is.html"},"modified":"2015-07-14T23:20:33","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T23:20:33","slug":"why-is-quinoa-pronounced-like-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/14\/why-is-quinoa-pronounced-like-it-is.html","title":{"rendered":"Why is &quot;quinoa&quot; pronounced like it is?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which, properly, is &quot;KEEN-wah&quot; (or &quot;keen-WAH&quot;). So why the French-sounding pronunciation?<\/p>\n<p>Thereby hangs an interesting tale, including the probably-never-imagined question of how quinoa and jerky are related.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/takeourword.blogspot.com\/2015\/01\/why-is-quinoa-pronounced-as-though-it.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/EPvgSlu40BYQ_dWFDeCtQE7_8kXbZnIeMxFJGRa8aJdRFhPfUjXiun_XSC6k69nA-81GFH-AKrTlDl6yvdd4I_sWMn2ByytAIc7mOMYAdI7Cf698BwVxTjUA96z36Zw-8aJt05Cvx6b0OFLwFoVs-XOd9B-z1c5she_ntlrZGw7Y2fJXquTtG-hqqUKS-hy6bRQ9UiQ6C0eIhA=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/takeourword.blogspot.com\/2015\/01\/why-is-quinoa-pronounced-as-though-it.html'>Why is Quinoa Pronounced As Though It Were French?<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nQuinoa.  Photo credit Christian Guthier The shibbolethic (is that a word?  It should be!) pronunciation of quinoa has puzzled me for some time.  How does a word that came to English from Spanish end up being pronounced as tho&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/YBVUk6tKNRg'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which, properly, is &quot;KEEN-wah&quot; (or &quot;keen-WAH&quot;). So why the French-sounding pronunciation? Thereby hangs an interesting tale, including the probably-never-imagined question of how quinoa and jerky are related. Why is Quinoa Pronounced As Though It Were French? Quinoa. Photo credit Christian Guthier The shibbolethic (is that a word? It should be!) pronunciation of quinoa has puzzled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/14\/why-is-quinoa-pronounced-like-it-is.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why is &quot;quinoa&quot; pronounced like it is?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49569,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/12\/margies-kitchen-quinoa-salad.html","url_meta":{"origin":51737,"position":0},"title":"Margie&#8217;s Kitchen: Quinoa Salad","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 12-Feb-15 2:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Margie's Kitchen: Quinoa Salad http:\/\/bit.ly\/1vHe84m #recipe View on Twitter","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~Tweets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":44339,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/13\/speaking-the-words-you-only-read.html","url_meta":{"origin":51737,"position":1},"title":"Speaking the words you only read","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 13-Aug-14 7:46am","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a fun metafilter thread looking for a term for mispronouncing a word you've only ever read, not heard, e.g., \u00a0pronouncing debacle as \"DEH-ba-cull\" (which was one of my own).\u00a0It appears to be (by some at least) formally called spelling pronunciation or reading pronunciation, but I prefer the suggestions booklish\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6703,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/30\/pronunciation.html","url_meta":{"origin":51737,"position":2},"title":"Pronunciation","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 30-Jul-04 9:15am","format":false,"excerpt":"A list of the 100 Most Often Mispronounced Words. 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