With all these fancy exotic sounding custom curries knocking about, sometimes you feel  a bit of an idiot as to whether you have pronounced them correctly, as the only reference is in written form . Is there any guides/rules of thumb to pronounciation -ie- I know that the h in paratha is silent, does that mean that the h the pathia is silent,etc?

regards Scott

Not sure about the Pathia but I do know that methi has a silent 'h' (met-tee) 

Quote from: smokenspices on July 04, 2008, 12:18 AM
Not sure about the Pathia but I do know that methi has a silent 'h' (met-tee) 

Seriously?

yup - drop the 'h'.

Quote from: smokenspices on July 04, 2008, 12:31 AM
yup - drop the 'h'.

I bet I'm gonna look a right p***k next time I'm in the shop!

Quote from: Bobby Bhuna on July 04, 2008, 12:36 AM

Quote from: smokenspices on July 04, 2008, 12:31 AM
yup - drop the 'h'.

I bet I'm gonna look a right p***k next time I'm in the shop!

Nah - just drop the 'K'.

Ahhh ..I love u guys....thats why i asked, also dont want to look a ***** when ordering etc.

I remember years ago, my mate was ordering curries for delivery. I said i wanted a prawn madras, my mate said its pronounced "madraa"  i said its not mate i promise. Anyway he ordered a "prawn madraa"..well the guy taking the order laughed his head off for about 2 minutes, i could hear him down the phone from the next room , it was so funny!

Quote from: smokenspices on July 04, 2008, 12:53 AM

Quote from: Bobby Bhuna on July 04, 2008, 12:36 AM

Quote from: smokenspices on July 04, 2008, 12:31 AM
yup - drop the 'h'.

I bet I'm gonna look a right p***k next time I'm in the shop!

Nah - just drop the 'K'.

My misses ordered a curry by 'phone recently, and as usual she asked for a paratha, we were also under the impression that it was pronounced 'parata', this resulted in a lot of confusion at their end untill the bloke we normally talk took the phone, and, laughing his head off, explained we'd been talking to a new bloke, and that where he came from in india, 'parata' meant 'finish' or 'end'!  He'd no idea that parata was bread, and thought we were using the word to state that we'd finished reading out our order.

Ho hum LOL

Thats a great story with the paratha, if u get the same new guy again call them puri's  lol.


My friend is from Calcutta and he told me they were called parata. May be its a word that has more than one meaning,,  bit like the word Pho in Vietnam, it has sopmething like 8 different meanings, and 8 different ways of pronouncing!!!!