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Mind your language

The real ‘scallop’ war: how do you pronounce it?

6 November 2021

9:00 AM

6 November 2021

9:00 AM

‘You say scallops and I say scallops,’ sang my husband in his best Ginger Rogers accents. Since we both pronounce the bivalve to rhyme with dollop, there was a certain lack of contrast.

There has been a scallop war with France in past days. Though both French and English enjoy them on the plate, it is the French in the 15th century who provided us with the name, escalope.

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