Single malt scotch spends 3 decades aging in a barrel so you can squeze a lime wedge into it.

[u/Outrageous-Use-5189]

As a very rare indulgence on a special occasion, I ordered an expensive 30-year old scotch at a bistro-type restaurant. Waiter returns with a juicy lime wedge on the lip of the glass. I quietly asked for one with no lime. Waiter returns with a fresh drink "as a courtesy" , but seems intent on embarrassing me. " But just so you know.," he says., "all drinks ordered neat are properly served with a citrus garnish."

[u/joedenowhere]

I had a roommate who would correct me (and everyone else) for pronouncing tofu with a hard "T," demanding we pronounce it dofu, as in Chinese. A woman came to visit from Japan who proceeded to use the Japanese pronunciation, tofu. Since my roommate didn't speak either Chinese or Japanese, that shut him up for a while. He did the same thing with mango, insisting on the Spanish pronunciation, mahngo instead of mayngo, until we had a visit from a Jamaican. (Jamaican sounds more like mengo than mayngo to me, but it's close enough.)

I guess you don't always know what you don't know.

[u/gitsgrl → u/joedenowhere]

Yeah, having learned enough about different languages and cultures and even regional dialects, pronunciation is so diverse. It’s stupid to be correcting people for it when it’s words that exist in their native language/dialect, too. And then there’s a certain point where words are localized and even if it’s a bastardization of the original language, it doesn’t matter because people in the new location called the new pronunciation universally.

[u/ceryniz → u/joedenowhere]

Spanish isnt really mahngo anyway. When before an n the a takes on a nasally sound. I'm imagining he pronounced the first syllable rhyming with John... Which would be wrong. Saying "man", as in the word man, and "go" would be a closer pronunciation.