Shur bet. Or sometimes shur bit.
I think I’m the only person I know who pronounces it this way instead of Shur bert.
Well why then can’t we all have the same goddam language too! That’ll clear things up, won’t it!?
sherbet as /ˈʃɜr.bɪt/ (SHUR-bit)
sorbet as /ˈsɔr.bɪt/ (SORE-bit), as it comes from Turkish, not French.
“Shur-bert” is merely a mispronunciation of the word “sherbet,” not something different in any substantive way.
Mispronounced SHURburt my entire midwestern life. And no, I don’t warsh the deeshes in the crick…
I never noticed it until I opened this thread just like I never noticed the Beatles weren’t spelled the same as the insect until I read it here. I am not changing my pronunciation though. Sherbet could be pronounced correctly in a charming British accent but it sounds downright tacky in lots of American accents.
A link to the online Merriam Webster mentions sherbet and a variant, sherbert; naturally, in the latter case, the r would be pronounced.
It would clear up a great many things, yes. Of course it would. That’s obvious, isn’t it?
But you forget the ol’ “human element”. Billions of people like languages that would have to be eliminated to do this, no matter which one we settle on. How unfeeling of you to propose such an unseemly tactic!
Not so many billions would care if we got rid of these deserts. Seriously, how many billions would care? How many know the difference? How many even tolerate somebody else explaining the difference without teasing them by pretending to misunderstand and getting them to repeat parts of it?
You have to admit it would be kinder and more sensitive of us to run roughshod over the feelings of sherbet lovers, than to do as you suggest.
Sure-bet.
I think “sure-bert” was started by some guy named Herbert.
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But seriously, I pronounce it sure bert. Even after I discovered that it’s spelled with only one r, I figured that since everybody else around me pronounces it like I do, why stop.
Sher b’t
The stuff in my freezer is spelled sherbert, just like I pronounce it.
“Sherbert.” I’ve never heard it pronounced any other way, although I don’t have occasion to talk about it all that often.
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.
That just means it’s a really common mispronunciation.
Which R would be pronounced? Er=Uh or a long vocalic Rrrr. Sheuhb’t.
You partly lose that bet. No one says warsh here, but they do say shurbert (Well, sort of. The r is there, but faintly), so commonly so that like StaudtCJ I never noticed that there’s only one R.
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Orange freaking Sher-bert since I was old enough to ask for it…cause after that green crap…it was a necessity to be specific…even at 2. 