choritso

English

Noun

choritso (countable and uncountable, plural choritsos)

1. Pronunciation spelling of chorizo.
   • 2009 May 15, Adrian🌱(@AdrianGodong), Twitter‎^[1]:

     #allbarone Chorizo is usually pronounced “chəreezo”, “chəreetho”, or “chəreeso”, but sometimes mispronounced as “choritso”.

   • 2009 July 23, Jeremy Butterfield, Damp Squid: The English Language Laid Bare‎^[2], page 57:

     Another example is the spicy Spanish sausage chorizo. In Spanish the -izo part can be pronounced ‘ee-so’ or ‘ee-tho’. But very often in English what you hear is the Italianate ‘cho-reet-so’, with the z pronounced like the double z of pizza. As you’d expect, you find spellings based on that pronunciation: choritso and chorizzo. Pronouncing a Spanish loan word in an Italian way is one of the many quirks of English.

   • 2016 September 8, Diana Henry, SIMPLE: Effortless Food, Big Flavours‎^[3]:

     Spanish chorizo - the cured Spanish sausage spiked with paprika - is so popular you’d think we all had an aunt hidden away in Andalucia… though, despite our ardour, we still can’t pronounce it: it’s chor-eetho, amigos, not chor-itso. It ain’t Italian.