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How do you pronounce cumin?

  1. cyoo'men

    9 vote(s)
    33.3%
  2. coo'men

    13 vote(s)
    48.1%
  3. another way

    1 vote(s)
    3.7%
  4. don't care

    4 vote(s)
    14.8%
  1. Along the lines of curiosity displayed by @Kilgore Trout in his Pecan? thread, I am wondering about the pronunciation of cumin.

    What do you think?
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  2. I say cue-min when I'm being polite. Otherwise, I say "dirt" or "eew." I can't stand the taste.
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  3. Yeah, cue-min might have been a better phonetic representation. I used some last night in making chili and thought about the different pronunciations.
  4. Funny, I've been thinking about making chili lately. Minus the cue-min. ;) But, I have some dried Thai chili pepers that are itching to fulfill their destiny.
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  5. Yup. Cue like cuestick. A favorite on most every meat I cook. It is specially tasty on over roasted penguin.
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  6. While you're on the spice discussion, do you say tum-er-ric or turm-er-ic? Hal-a-pee-no or hal-a pay-nyo. Chi-pol-tay or chi-polt-lay. The word that TV cooks mispronounce most of the time is Vidalia, as in the sweet onion variety. Usually they say Veh-dah-lee-uh. I'm from Georgia, trust me it's pronounced Vie-day-uh.
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  7. Cyoo'men for me. Nasty stuff, I can't stand cilantro. I tolerate cumin because a full tablespoon goes into Josea's Word Class Meatloaf.
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  8. Been through Vidalia louisiana often. You gotta pronounce the L there. So I do the same with the onion.
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  9. Why would you wanna make the Penguin even more inedible?
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  10. It's your dinner, so pronounce it your way, but the onion comes from Georgia where they don't pronounce the L. ;)
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  11. From Cuminum cyminum (koo'-min-um), so I pronounce the shortened version as koo'-min.

    In our household, essential for many Indian dishes and of course, making chile as well as chile rubs from meats
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  12. hal-uh-payn'-yo — there is no PEE-no, unless you gringo-ize it.

    Chee-poat'-lay - my son had a coach who used to call it 'Chip-poadle' :eek:
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  13. I've always heard KOO-min but then it's not something that comes up in everyday conversation.
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  14. At the risk of being NFSW...

    Many years ago, I received a porn spam which caught my eye (this was the days before effective spam filters). The subject line talked about a woman who was "cumin with carrot in her p*ssy". :shocked003:
  15. ^That was spicy of a different kind entirely.
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  16. Coo-min. Like a dove.
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  17. Yes
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  18. Chi-POL-tee

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  19. From aa LA Hispanic point of view its COO-min... Q-min just sounds dumb

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  20. Comino molido!
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