How Do You Pronounce The Word "Tuna"?

Tuner or chewna, both sound the same :wink:

Or Tsuna lol. They are basically the same just spelt different.

You can tune a piano but you can’t tune a fish. :wink:

Choona

Too-nah inna cahn, a-yuh!

“It’s not a too-na’ (Arnie)

I fear I might just be a poshly spoken Brit :o

http://www.macmillandictionary.com/pronunciation/british/tuna

Tuna, with a U.

Ah i didn’t realise the poster is kiwi. Maybe we can also ask how to pronounce fish and chips? lol :stuck_out_tongue:

Chicken Of The Sea

Nothing like a good too-na steak seared on the outside, rare on the inside!

a Chicken of the sea

In Hawiian it’s “humahumanupanupaapua’a” :open_mouth:

Phil

Tune-Ahh

John.

Wow, I don’t care how you pronounce it, there’s a lot of money in that net!

Like this.

Thanks to those that have voted and/or commented so far! There are some interesting and amusing results!

I wont mention anything about "feesh and cheeps" either!

The inspiration behind this topic was that I had some canned (tinned) tuna that I didn't really want nor need. So I took the tuna to give to my next door neighbor, an elderly lady. By chance one of the ladys' daughters happened to be visiting. So when I mentioned that I had some "too-na" to give away, the elderly lady and her daughter started talking about "tyou-na" this, "tyou na" that, and "tyou-na" the other.

So I was wondering about the pronunciation of the word tuna. Hence this topic was created.

As suspected, the pronunciation of tuna as "too-na" (or "too-nah") is more american (and for countries influenced by North America). And the pronunciation of tuna as "tyou-na" (or "chew-na", or "choo-na") is predominantly British (and for countries heavily influenced by British culture such as Australia and New Zealand).

I prefer "too-na", as it sounds right to me. "Tyou-na" doesn't sound right.

As you spell it.

It might be worth mentioning that the “a” at the end is ambiguous. Many places have no “a” as in “cat” or “hand”, only “a” as in “water” or “star”.

In this case, it’s “a” as in “what” or “Yoda”.

“TOON-uh” is popular in the US, while “TYOON-ah” is more popular in British areas.