Why is tuna pronounced choo-na?

Question

Tube is choob, tuba is chooba, but tub isn't chub and tune isn't choon.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Ask phonics. But due to many influences on England through invasion.. that happens. But I still believe that it depends how the country/people decide to deal with the language. For example, Americans simplified in ways such as color, or center.

No 'u' in color, and also not going with the 're' in 'centre' or so. Yet I find American yuck for example in about.. sounding like 'ai-bout' and or 'body = buddy' with that open mouth of aah for o sound.. etc.

Personallt I would say: They could have made their lives easier just like Americans in that above example or like any language matures or changes positively (English itself is different than old English).. but some people don't seem smart enough for that, but to rob, kidnap, murder, spread choas through smearing and makeling lies instead.

Ill_made_Knight · Accepted Answer

A bit lazy isn't it. Some of those examples may come with a yoo sound such as tube or tuba. It all comes down to dialect I think. Very eccentric. Take the pronunciation of "ham" across several counties of Texas. You may hear the obvious standard pronunciation or hear the word mutate into two syllables something like "HAY-uhm"
AHH humans.

NoDecision · Accepted Answer

They pronounce things differently in jolly old England. They consider English in the US as slang. Back in the 1700s we talked King's English too. Sadly, English in the US now transitioning to rapper talk.

ShellyB · Accepted Answer

I have never heard any of these words pronounced with a CH sound!

James The Foodie · Accepted Answer

English pronunciation is a wild ride, like trying fusion sushi for the first time 😄

“Tube” and “tuna” can sound like “choob” and “choona” in some British accents because of a process called yod-coalescence: the “t” + “yoo” (t + /juː/) blends into “tʃuː” (ch-oo).

But “tub” and “tune” don’t follow consistently, especially in American English, where “tuna” is usually “too-na,” not “choo-na.” English just mixes rules and history like a very messy recipe.

Lliam · Answer

I think it's a British thing to pronounce "t" as "ch". I never heard anyone in America do that.

FreyaRed · Answer

Sounds often like t͡ʃʼ similar to Czechia

DryGermanGuy · Answer

Where would that happen? In Noo-Yook?

BCRanger10 · Answer

Because they probably don't know how to say words correctly. They probably also pronounce the word "escape" as "ex-cape"... How do you pronounce the word "escape"? ↗

AviatorTom · Answer

I've never heard choo-na. Maybe a Cockney thing?

FunkyMonkee · Answer

Because it's not. Just because you and maybe a few people you know pronounce it that way, doesn't mean that's how it's pronounced. I used to have a friend that pronounced his t's at the start of words the same way. Chwenty-Choo, Chrouble. Nobody else did, just him.

andreasderjuengere · Answer

Until now I only have eaten it.
I' ll try to pronouce it next time when I get some.
For the time being...
I will assume that once again it's simply another language distortion between the two sides of the Atlantic?

Levin · Answer

You're asking a bunch of Yanks who pronounce it toona? Besides, you're welsh. All pronouncements from you about pronounciation must be null and voided.

exitseven · Answer

I never heard of Choona. It sounds more like a breakfast cereal.

katiesmuff · Answer

I've never heard of the choo na pronouncement

WhitneySnow · Answer

I have never heard tuna pronounced choo-na except in the Latin word Fortuna

RavVid · Answer

Perple would stare and snigger at those who say choona in my world.

Nikki1989 · Answer

I thought it was tune-nah.

Smegskull · Answer

It should sound ti-yuu-na. People get lazy with enunciation of hard consonants though. The one I notice the most is "issue" as "ishu".

ChicoFromThe305 · Answer

I think you have people pronouncing it as choona cause you are in England 💀

robocop666 · Answer

English is a weird language in words are spelt different to how their pronounced

Staglioni · Answer

I thought I was having a stroke there reading the description 🤣

douride2 · Answer

@purplepoppy I have never heard it pronounced that way. Must be a British thing.

LC75LC71 · Answer

You have really ran out of questions to ask.

In_Trance · Answer

Probably because British people have such bad dental work

DeeDeeDeVour · Answer

It's "too-na" for us.

lilBigPotato · Answer

Is it? Maybe just some local dialect.

Razp_Sorbet · Answer

Its not if you say it correctly 💀

FrodoSkywalker007 · Answer

Because you don't speak English

NotSomeUserName · Answer

It is spelled that way in the ocean.

Why is tuna pronounced choo-na?

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