The Great British Baking Show Will No Longer Have National Theme Weeks

[frejasface]

'The Great British Baking Show' is choosing not to have any national themes this year on the showhttps://t.co/mv0MN7Q7Qx
- JustJared.com (@JustJared) September 4, 2023
The upcoming season of The Great British Baking Show will not have an international theme week. Many viewers reacted negatively to previous national themes. For instance, for Mexican

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[theburningdoll]

The way that guy who looks like Guy Fieri's evil twin pronounced "taco"

[tanglespiders]

still better than the way the pronounce "churros" (which is both plural and singular) and "paella"

[sashwizzled]

HOW did he pronounce it? Because I saw people on Reddit bitching about it and I can only think it's either TAH-coes or TAW-coes.

[bloopbloop01]

Tack(like thumb tack)-Oh’s

[sashwizzled]

So, his letter A was wrong?

...is this just a regional accent difference. Because to me it always sounds like Americans call them Taw-coes.

[bloopbloop01]

Yeah, I don’t know the terms for pronunciation, but he said it with a more nasally A than you should use.

[sashwizzled]

...If you have no interest in accent rambling, please ignore this...

tl;dr: Yeah, I think the taco thing is just a general pronunciation difference that comes down to Paul Hollywood having a nasally accent and it probably sounds weird as hell to people not from the UK.

I remember reading at some point that American English has one 'ah' sound it uses in loanwords (the one in the front of the mouth like 'father'), which isn't exactly right for a lot of the languages they come from but helps consistency since, y'know, melting pot. Everyone's used to using the same sound with the same rules

[bloopbloop01]

This was fascinating lmao, thank you!!

[azaelers]

My ex is british and insisted the british pronunciation of taco was correct. They have to colonize everything….!