# How do YOU pronounce "sherbet"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 30, 2009, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-sherbet/508264 "2009-08-30T16:33:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-sherbet/508264/61 "2009-09-02T04:32:42Z")
Me dear old grandmother, born, raised and lived her entire life in the Ozark Mountains, put an R in “wash.” It’s one of those quaint, fond memories I have. Not sure if I’ve ever heard anyone else do it. Forget Tijuana. Few Americans can correctly pronounce Juarez. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-sherbet/508264/62 "2009-09-02T04:51:02Z")
It’s not wharEZ? ETA…maybe with less “h”, like warEZ ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-sherbet/508264/63 "2009-09-02T04:53:25Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > Sherbet. And I once had a big fight with my dad over the pronunciation of turmeric, which he thought was pronounced tumeric. I won. hmpf. More ignorance fought, although I prefer how tumeric glides over my tongue. Turmeric is just ungainly. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-sherbet/508264/64 "2009-09-02T05:07:41Z")
> [@Ruby](#): > > It’s not wharEZ? > > ETA…maybe with less “h”, like warEZ Whenever I actually am in Juarez, I always hear the locals say it as HWAR-es. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-sherbet/508264/65 "2009-09-02T06:40:15Z")
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**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-sherbet/508264/66 "2009-09-02T12:49:31Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > I pronounce it the right way, without the extra R. In school, I would make fun of the less-educated kids who pronounced it the wrong way. Preach it! ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-sherbet/508264/67 "2009-09-02T16:05:10Z")
“ice-cream” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-sherbet/508264/68 "2009-09-02T17:22:49Z")
Wow. I guess I don’t get out much. I’m surprised by the number of “sherbert” answers, because I always thought it was just a mispronunciation. I pronounce it SHERb’t ---
**Author:** ![phreesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@phreesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phreesh)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-sherbet/508264/69 "2009-09-02T20:47:24Z")
Another long-time sherberter until I realized that everybody around me was adding an unneccessary ‘r’ (around 25 years old). Now, I annoy everybody by pronouncing it ‘correctly’ as sherbet. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-sherbet/508264/70 "2009-09-02T22:30:47Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > Shrbut. Rhymes with put, except not stressed on last syllable This - with a really short, flat ‘u’. Also, when I say it, I’m only ever talking about a kind of fizzy powdered confectionery product - because that’s more or less exclusively what the word means here in England. Icy, usually-fruity desserts are _sorbet_ - pronounced sore-bay. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-sherbet/508264/71 "2009-09-03T09:04:15Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Forget Tijuana. Few Americans can correctly pronounce Juarez. I do tend to say, “Tía Juana” (& schwaed even) but isn’t “Juarez” |xwar 'es|? ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-sherbet/508264/72 "2009-09-03T23:27:36Z")
Juárez, as the accent indicates, is pronounced HWAR-es, the E being a bit more like an English A; I tend to swallow the H a little, so it’s not heavily aspirated. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-sherbet/508264/73 "2009-09-04T00:21:40Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Me dear old grandmother, born, raised and lived her entire life in the Ozark Mountains, put an R in “wash.” It’s one of those quaint, fond memories I have. Not sure if I’ve ever heard anyone else do it. > > Forget Tijuana. Few Americans can correctly pronounce Juarez. tixwɑnǝ çwɑrƐz ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-sherbet/508264/74 "2009-09-04T03:53:56Z")
> [@Nametag](#): > > Juárez, as the accent indicates, is pronounced HWAR-es, the E being a bit more like an English A. As I said, that’s how I hear it from the locals, but when I say it like that to fellow Americans, even in Texas (especially in Texas?), they’ll look at me funny and go: “Hunh?” Then I say “War-EZ” in my best redneck voice, and they always get it. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-sherbet/508264.md?page=3)