How Joe Wicks pronounces Wensleydale will have you facepalming into next week
We can understand people having difficulty when it comes to the correct pronunciation of some fancy French cheeses (Époisses, Chaource, Ossau-Iraty etc…). It appears, however, that even our own humble Wensleydale can prove problematic for certain fitness coaches.
I regret to inform you that this is how Joe Wicks pronounces Wensleydale. pic.twitter.com/pcMNVCyHOa
— Grant Tucker (@GrantTucker) August 18, 2019
GROMIT!
Nearly snorted my tonsils down my oesophagus with the roar of laughter that generated#Wensleydaawlay🧀
— Anne Foley Smith (@foleysmith555) 18 August 2019
The wensley-what? @thebodycoach come up to Yorkshire and we’ll tell you how to say it mate. It’s dale. As in: a dale. Like the Yorkshire Dales. As in the chipmunks; Chip and Dale. But not as in Dalai Lama. Hope that helps, but come up here and see us anyway 😃
— Leon Fleming (@leonfleming) 18 August 2019
Wensleydarlay – this is truly broken Britain
— Millie Reeves (@PuddleMoon) 18 August 2019
LOL, I’d love to see folks’ reaction to him pronouncing it like that in actual Wensleydale
— P.G. Wodelouse (@PGWodelouse) 18 August 2019
Here’s what Wicks – presumably there’s a silent ‘PR’ sound in there somewhere – had to say about it later.
I’m calling the police. pic.twitter.com/WXm4LK5uXK
— Grant Tucker (@GrantTucker) 18 August 2019
‘Hello? There’s been a murder. A murder of the English language.’
IT’S THE WRONG PRONUNCIATION, GROMIT! pic.twitter.com/aPUoiuYPPS
— Nerius. (Studio Squidink) (@StudioSquidink) 18 August 2019