# How do you pronounce "Sherbet"?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 14, 2008, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-sherbet/467805 "2008-10-14T00:31:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-sherbet/467805/81 "2008-10-16T07:01:13Z")

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I say “sher-bet” because that is how the letters are arranged.

Other words that are commonly mispronounced that bug me include: nukular, mischeeveeus, and Farv.

FFS, what is up with this family that they can’t spell their own name right?

I know my name is spelled B-O, but it’s pronounced “Kensington”. :dubious:

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**Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-sherbet/467805/82 "2008-10-16T07:35:50Z")

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Sher-but - it’s a short ‘u’, as in halibut.

In the UK, sherbet only means dry fizzy powder sold as candy. Sweetened ice is sorbet.

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**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-sherbet/467805/83 "2008-10-16T14:46:11Z")

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> [@Mangetout](#):
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> In the UK, sherbet only means dry fizzy powder sold as candy. Sweetened ice is sorbet.

Like [Pixy stix?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixy_Stix)

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