How do you pronounce "yolk"?
Does it rhyme with joke, coke, poke?
Or do you pronounce the "l"?
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26 Comments:
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JerzeeTomato at 4:21AM on 08/08/08
I pronounce it like "polka," without the "a" and a muted "l". So I half-pronounce the "l"; similar to some Japanese words that are pronounced with the "f" and "h" simultaneously, so it's somewhat muted.
Now with salmon, I do a double-take when people pronounce it "SAL-mun."
Cassaendra at 7:29AM on 08/08/08
No L spoken here.
izatryt at 7:43AM on 08/08/08
Is this a joke?
(That's both a question and an example of the pronunciation.)
Then again, I've heard lots of strange pronunciation in my life - such as the co-worker who pronounced "calendar" as "cal-end-ar", with the "a" as an "a" or people who say "shedual" (schedule) - so who am I to judge?
CanadianFoodieGirl at 8:21AM on 08/08/08
"Shedual" to me falls under British English, so it does make me smile when someone who is not British says it. With so many regional variations of pronounciations in the US, I tend to dismiss things as regional nuances...falling under the glove compartment and soda thing.
My mother-in-law says, "warsh" for wash. My head turns when someone says white properly by pronouncing with the "hw" versus just the "w." I say it with just a w.
Cassaendra at 9:01AM on 08/08/08
good...
Markbb at 9:06AM on 08/08/08
yolk is pronounced like yoke, or joke.
simon at 9:35AM on 08/08/08
Yoke.
what's the glove compartment thing?
Lilla at 11:29AM on 08/08/08
You know, like "Year, Oh". Not, "guy row".
Wait.
JudgeFudge at 11:35AM on 08/08/08
Lila- some of us call it a glove box.
OT: my mom pronounces the word 'evening' like this: EVEN-ing. Drives me nuts.
And Yoke.
Kerosena at 11:38AM on 08/08/08
And Year-oh.
Kerosena at 11:42AM on 08/08/08
Yoke.
One of my cycle instructors says hode for hold. Wonder how she pronounces yolk?
I worked for a lady in Colorado who said rayg for rag.
therealchiffonade at 12:09PM on 08/08/08
ask, not axe. fo-lee-age, not foil-age. nu-clee-ar, not nu-cu-lar. yee-ro, not guy-ro or jeye-ro.
simon at 12:16PM on 08/08/08
Oh, yeah, glove box--I forgot about this form.
What about "real-a-tor" for "realtor"? THAT drives me nuts.
Lilla at 12:19PM on 08/08/08
@Lilla - thank you. I'm a Realtor - no a in the middle!
How about grocery shopping at your neighborhood Ac a me. I hear that a lot here in PA and in NJ.
Yolk - I pronounce it yoke.
PerkyMac at 1:12PM on 08/08/08
i pronounce it yowlk, so i do have the l, i guess im the odd girl out...
agk685 at 1:21PM on 08/08/08
I pronounce the "l" as well, though it's soft and not enunciated, almost like a guttural instead of a lingual.
And I think the "glove box thing" is calling a glove box a jockey box in some areas (though personally a jockey box should be between 2 seats, like console storage, rather than a glove box, which should be a small storage box in the dash with a door).
devlyn at 3:11PM on 08/08/08
Rhymes with broke.
bessfour at 4:50PM on 08/08/08
How about ung-yun for onion? That one is like nails on a chauk board. ;-)
izatryt at 5:23PM on 08/08/08
soft l but there is an el.
I say beg for bag. Pacific Northwest thing I think.
katarina_santiago at 6:33PM on 08/08/08
rhymes with yoke.
i don't say the "l" in salmon.
My husband says "melk" for the white liquid in the fridge that i drink in coffee.
a lady i work with is constantly talking about her brother-in-law who is a "pasture". took forever for us to realize she meant "pastor".
redhead at 6:49PM on 08/08/08
@redhead ~ Did you hubby grow up in New England? We always said "melk".
izatryt at 7:25PM on 08/08/08
My main pet peeve is ar-tic instead of arc-tic (also nucular instead of nuclear like says idiot Bush)
Yoke
and definitely Milk (not Melk - which is a beautiful abbey in Austria!)
PeanutButter at 8:10PM on 08/08/08
Yes - I get wild about 'Artic' too - and about A-thuh-leet for athlete. Mind you I irritate MOH by pronouncing 'almond' as AHL-mund. He (and everyone else I know) says AH-mund. And for some reason I have trouble with 'milk' which seems to come out 'miyk' whatever I do!
But 'yoke'does for me.
Foodlexi at 11:31AM on 08/09/08
@Foodlexi - I say AH-mund too, and milk is definitely always "milk". There is no "l" in salmon or almonds, but there is an "l" in yolk - a very soft one, you can barely hear it - if at all, but it's there.
brooke29 at 11:55AM on 08/09/08
I'll try to get it right!
Foodlexi at 8:22AM on 08/10/08