Pronounce endive

[debodun]

Do you say EN-dive or AHN-deev?

 

[RadishRose]

EN-dive

 

[gennie]

Depends which form you mean. If it's loose, curly and leafy it's EN-dive. If it's pale green bulb shape it is AHN=deev as in Belgian Endive

 

[win231]

I pronounce it "Lettuce." (somebody had to say it).

What about "envelope?" "AHNvelope" or "ENvelope?"

 

[RadishRose]

Depends which form you mean. If it's loose, curly and leafy it's EN-dive. If it's pale green bulb shape it is AHN=deev as in Belgian Endive

That would be French Gennie?

 

[gennie]

I believe the pale green bulb shape would be the French.

 

[A2ZGrammie]

I don't even know what the heck it is.....

 

[RadishRose]

What about "envelope?" "AHNvelope" or "ENvelope?"

I say ENvelope, but I remember as a child saying AHNvelope.

 

[RadishRose]

I don't even know what the heck it is.....

It's very bitter, perhaps that's why, LOL. I won't eat it because of the bitterness.

I never knew this was endive, either....always called it Chickory. Bitter.

 

[A2ZGrammie]

Thank you Rose! And I say ENvelope too, though I have been corrected and told that it's AHNvelope. Pfft.

 

[RadishRose]

Thank you Rose! And I say ENvelope too, though I have been corrected and told that it's AHNvelope. Pfft.

I looked it up. You were correct, it is ENvelope!

 

[fuzzybuddy]

I was born and raised in Massachusetts, USA. The CORRECT pronunciation, of course, is AHNvelope. JEEESH!!!!

 

[fmdog44]

Endive is pronounced, " Yech".

 

[debodun]

I was born and raised in Massachusetts, USA. The CORRECT pronunciation, of course, is AHNvelope. JEEESH!!!!

And the proper pronunciation in Mass for YARD is YAHD.

 

[RadishRose]

I was born and raised in Massachusetts, USA. The CORRECT pronunciation, of course, is AHNvelope. JEEESH!!!!

Fuzzy, I grew up near you in CT and I guess AHNvelope is regional. I did say it that way as a child.

 

[RadishRose]

And the proper pronunciation in Mass for YARD is YAHD.

That's the olde British that stuck in New England...dropping the "R". Not so much CT, tho'. I wonder why.

(Pahk the Cah in Hahvahd Yahd) LOL

 

[debodun]

Pahk the Cah in Hahvahd Yahd LOL

Sounds like the Kennedys.