Please pronounce this word for me

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The word is - terroir - means "the taste of the place from which they come.

Like with wine, cheese or honey. The soil of a particular area imparts a distinct characteristic to a wine. The plants of a particular area that are consumed my cattle, sheep, goats - will give the cheese made from their milk a special essence. Honey from different blossoms gives uniqueness, - all are recognizable by experts in those different foods.

That word - terroir - how do you say it?

-- homestead2 (homestead@localnetplus.com), March 11, 2001

Answers

just moved it to the top, hoping to get an answer

-- homestead2 (homestead@localnetplus.com), March 11, 2001.

One entry found for goût de terroir.

Main Entry: goût de ter·roir Pronunciation: gü-d&-te-rw[a']r Usage: foreign term Etymology: French : taste of the earth

-- Jim (catchthesun@yahoo.com), March 11, 2001.


Great word, best used in written form...at least for this non-native French speaker!

-- Anne (HealthyTouch101@wildmail.com), March 11, 2001.

tuh-rwahr

-- jonesey (jonesey@bigfoot.com), March 11, 2001.

tare-WAHR

-- Leslie A. (lesliea@home.com), March 11, 2001.


no "r" sound in the first syllable: teh-WAH accent on the second syllable.

the French r here is gutteral-hard to do without practice! You can add a gutteral r on the end of the first syllable-just make sure it is barely audible.

the ending r is silent. (this is a masculine form) if it were feminine it would be spelled with a an -re on the end and then you would pronounce it.

Hope that helps=I studied French for several years-much easier than our confusing english (american at that!)

-- sarah (heartsongacres@juno.com), March 12, 2001.


Thank you all. This is so great. I knew I would get the answers on this board.

I want to have cheese workshops in the future. (must organize my life considerably first.) I want to share with people why we won't all make the same cheese, even though we may use the same recipes.

I saw that word used on a cheesemaker's forum this week and am intrigued by this phenomenom of terroir. I thought it was going to be a pistol to pronounce - and I can see it sure is.

-- homestead2 (homestead@localnetplus.com), March 12, 2001.


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