Miss Pronunciation IX

Miss Pronunciation is a Goody Two Choux **

 It was the choice between the potato salad and the.........what? The WHAT? Did you really say that?

Dare I?

The coldslaw.......

I couldn’t work out if I was choosing between a form of herpes or a side dish.

It’s coleslaw - it originally comes from the Dutch “Koolsla” or “Koolsalade” meaning cabbage salad. Taking this into account, one can see how cold might be thrown into the mix.

However, it remains that the correct pronunciation stands without a ‘d’: kɒɫsɫɔː .

**Incidentally, my good and very clever friend Elinor has a theory about the phrase "Goody Two Shoes": in French it is popular to call someone dear to you "Chou Chou" (ʃuː ʃuː)  as in "cabbage" (aaaah, my little cabbage). It's far sexier in a French accent. So someone always dear to or held in favour by another might be labelled a Goody two Choux. I like this explanation.