Nigella Lawson opens up on viral mispronunciation making her feel ‘self-conscious’

Nigella Lawson opens up on mispronunciation that made her 'self-conscious'. Source: BBC Breakfast

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00:00 Some people said you've got to ask her about micro-hua-ve.

00:03 What you famously called the microwave,

00:05 micro-hua-ve on television.

00:07 Now, I'm aiming for quite a solid mash at this stage,

00:11 but I still need a bit of milk, full fat,

00:14 which I've warmed in the micro-hua-ve.

00:18 I wasn't quite aware I'd said it,

00:19 because that's what I call it at home.

00:22 And what's quite interesting is that a lot of people got in touch

00:26 with me to tell me what their family mispronunciations are,

00:31 because so many families do have that, that they have a way of...

00:37 So they mispronounce a word either because the child

00:40 and the family could never say it properly,

00:42 and that's become part of their family language,

00:45 or just because they make jokes and they stick.

00:49 So will you be saying on Christmas Day,

00:50 "I'm just going to put these sprouts in the micro-hua-ve"?

00:54 I'm not. It's made me quite self-conscious now.

00:57 I tend to refer to it as the you-know-what now.