Being from a working class family (an ex-postman for 21 years myself) I never imagined the day when I'd be drinking Champagne while sitting in a First Class cabin. But to the amazement of my family this is something that I quite often experience these days - mostly thanks to the kind and helpful information from the folk at Flyertalk of course. With the aim of injecting a bit of weekend fun, but also educating those who break into a sweat at the thought of having to pronounce some of those foreign descriptions, I thought it would be useful to collect together a few important words and names.
Perhaps some know the feeling, you get the menu and immediately become anxious at the idea of having to read what is on the card, so you just say 'the chicken', or maybe even not choose what you really want!
Last year when I was in the Flounge I asked for some g-notch-chi, only to be answered with a wry smile and told that it's actually pronounced as n(j)ok-key.
Needless to say my face went red, I would have quite happily scuttled out of the dining room.
This week, and just in time for a QR F flight, I discovered that in Krug the 'u' is not pronounced as in j
ug, but actually as in ven
ue. So potential embarrassment saved there!
Of course many of you will find it amusing that some of us here are not familiar with such pronunciations, but I would love to hear any stories of others' pronunciation faux pas.