How the heck do you pronounce Macchiatto?!?!? Everytime I order one I get told a different way to say it. I'm at the stage now where I just point and say "the caramel thing" 
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dynamicv said:Funnily enough, exactly why I originally clicked on the thread
Yes, it's true. It's not her baby. It was all a sham. Get over it!
Now the real question is, will she be able to live with Anders?
max_altitude said:
Thanks....Didn't realise I posted it in Current Events sorry. Too many tabs open!
dynamicv said:Mack-ee-ah-toe in Italy. And they should know
thats the way i say it too. and i believe its correct.
edit: actually... Mach-ee-ah-toe is how i say it.
combatcolin said:Not THAT Starbuck then.
*whew*
Glad I wasn't the only one. Yummy yummy Starbuck, mmm....
That's wrong. In Italian, the english "ch" sound comes when an e or an i directly follow a c, or sometimes after an apostrophe (e.g. C'e or amici). So for your pronouciation to work, macchiato would have to be spelt without the h after the second c.PlaceofDis said:
In the meantime, a c followed by an h in Italian is pronounced similar to the English "k".
Just as a side note, "Latte Macchiato" means "Stained Milk". They tend to call the drink that in Italy rather than the Starbucks "Caffe Macchiato". Stained Coffee doesn't make much sense
dynamicv said:That's wrong. In Italian, the english "ch" sound comes when an e or an i directly follow a c, or sometimes after an apostrophe (e.g. C'e or amici). So for your pronouciation to work, macchiato would have to be spelt without the h after the second c.
In the meantime, a c followed by an h in Italian is pronounced similar to the English "k".
Just as a side note, "Latte Macchiato" means "Stained Milk". They tend to call the drink that in Italy rather than the Starbucks "Caffe Macchiato". Stained Coffee doesn't make much sense
i think we're both confusing each other due to the stresses and such being left out. i wrote "Mach" because is pronounce it as in Mach 3 because i took your Mack to be more like a Mack Truck sound. ::shrug::
I've been to way more than enough starbucks (there are only 52 I actually counted) to be able to firmly tell you that it's pronounced mah-ki-aht-toe
PlaceofDis said:
same here (with "mach" as described above)
or it could be written as mah-kee-aw-toe... it all sounds and tastes the same
MAH-key-ah-tow.AndyR said:How the heck do you pronounce Macchiatto?!?!? Everytime I order one I get told a different way to say it. I'm at the stage now where I just point and say "the caramel thing"
Something just occurred to me. You say Mach (as in Mach 3) like Mark don't you?PlaceofDis said:
I say Mach like "Mack", which is why I thought you meant something similar to "Match". No wonder we're confused.
Damn English languages
But it's definitely like "Mack" in Macchiato. It's an Italian word, therefore the Italians have it right.
dynamicv said:Something just occurred to me. You say Mach (as in Mach 3) like Mark don't you?
I say Mach like "Mack", which is why I thought you meant something similar to "Match". No wonder we're confused.
Damn English languages
if only "Mach" would be english
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Mach
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch_(digraph)#Voiceless_palatal_fricative
i simply had too
Hummer said:
That's also how I say it... I believe that is also the correct italian pronunciation of the word.
