How is "Stouffer" pronounced?

[revdoc]

This has been bugging me for a long time now. I've only ever seen it written, so I usually say "stoofer", but is it?

 

[gone]

Depends on where one lives. In Louisiana it would probably be Stoo fey.

 

[AgX]

I would pronounce the diphtong in Stouffer as in couch.

 

[Trail Images]

The well known video photographer of the series "Wild America" Marty Stouffer pronounced his last name as Stowfer. The OW expression of pain. At least that was I recall him saying. This of course could be a USA version or even from where he was born, raised, and family pronunciation over the years..........

 

[nmp]

Ask in the Frozen Foods forum....

 

[mrosenlof]

no idea what's correct. the frozen food ads said Stoh fur IIRC

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

...and here I though a diphtong was something my wife wore.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Stouffer

 

[nmp]

Stouffer

This begs to differ:



Yummy!

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

This begs to differ:



Yummy!

So it IS pronounced that way! I thought stoofers was a bit weird.

 

[pentaxuser]

...and here I though a diphtong was something my wife wore.

This might be similar to an aprong which I wear when doing the dishes or Greg Davis wears when working in the darkroom. Latex is best

pentaxuser

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

 

[GregY]

Both the Wiki and the youtube commercial are pretty americanized versions of the pronunciation.

 

[grat]

My friend pronounces it the same as the YT commercial, and since it's been his name for the last 6+ decades, I'll defer to him.

Both the Wiki and the youtube commercial are pretty americanized versions of the pronunciation.

Never heard the wiki version used, and the brand is American, so I'm not sure what you expect-- perhaps an Icelandic influence, even though the products aren't available in Iceland (the store, not the country)?

 

[wiltw]

Once again 'it depends'...if Stouffer is the brand of frozen food, correct pronunciation is how that family decided to anglicize the pronunciation, even when the proper German pronunciation is different!
And maybe the 'Stouffer' of OP is not the food brand, but a different context...and that family pronounces their name yet another way?!

I know a lady married to a guy originally of French heritage. Frenchman would say 'Boyer' is pronounced (English rules of pronunciatioon) 'Boy-yay,' the family calls themselves 'Boy-ur'. Similarly Paris TX is 'Pear-iss', not 'Pear-ee' as the French would say about their own famous city. I

n Chinese the same surname is pronounced differently based simply upon which town the person comes from...'Chin', 'Chen', 'Chan' 'Chun' 'Tan', 'Tang' are anglicized spellings by immigration officials filling out immigration paperwork based on what they heard, of what was actually one chinese character in Hanzi, pronounced slightly differently!

 

[Vaughn]

It is pronounced, "step wedge".

 

[DREW WILEY]

We pronounce it "stuffing" every Thanksgiving. But perhaps the real pronunciation is more analogous to "toupee" - those things that make Brit leaders look like scarecrows. I dunno.

 

[Sirius Glass]

We pronounce it "stuffing" every Thanksgiving. But perhaps the real pronunciation is more analogous to "toupee" - those things that make Brit leaders look like scarecrows. I dunno.

I heard that when one is in Australia and one has finished a large meal, that they should not push away from the table and announce, "I'm stuffed!" I do not know why, but that seems to cause bright red faces and loud guffaws.

 

[GregY]

My friend pronounces it the same as the YT commercial, and since it's been his name for the last 6+ decades, I'll defer to him.



Never heard the wiki version used, and the brand is American, so I'm not sure what you expect-- perhaps an Icelandic influence, even though the products aren't available in Iceland (the store, not the country)?

Well we're not really talking about frozen foods. And on top of differences of pronunciation (interpretation) in different countries, there are differences in local 'dialect'..... whether it's Berlin/Bavaria, Paris/Haute Savoie, Minnesota/Venice Beach/Bronx..... N'est-ce pas?

 

[Vaughn]

I heard that when one is in Australia and one has finished a large meal, that they should not push away from the table and announce, "I'm stuffed!" I do not know why, but that seems to cause bright red faces and loud guffaws.

Being 'stuffed' could mean either being prego, or just f@#ked.

While in NZ, a couple America gals offered to root for the local college soccer team -- which also brought some interesting looks as that is basically asking for some group sex with the team.

 

[BobUK]

I don't trust those word pronunciation sites anymore.

One of my textbooks when doing some geology courses pronounced the word cephalopod as kef al o pod
It emphasised that sef a low pod was incorrect.
Apparently it comes from the Greek Kephal meaning head, and poda meaning foot.
In the Greek used for the classification there was no s sounding c as in ceiling it was a hard sounding k as in crunchy.

It was a long time ago when it was classified, and not much less when I read the book.

So do not believe all you hear on the web.

 

[BobUK]

Vaughn "Being stuffed could mean either being prego, or just f@#ked."


Stuffing can also be the actual act of sex in the UK.

Many a Christmas smile has been raised when the hostess whilst carving up the turkey asks the guests "do you fancy a bit of stuffing?"

 

[DREW WILEY]

Greek is a lot more consistent than English. If trying to understand "English" spoken in Arkansas, I first call someone in Chicago who can understand the rudeness of Brooklyn, who in turn can yell at someone in Dallas to untangle that twang, and from there find someone in Mississippi or Tennessippi or whatever, who can translate an Arkansas drawl. But even that is easier than trying to understand the fellow at work who came from Liverpool.

 

[Don_ih]

Stuffing can also be the actual act of sex in the UK.

Remind me to never eat a turkey if I ever go to the UK....

 

[grat]

Well we're not really talking about frozen foods. And on top of differences of pronunciation (interpretation) in different countries, there are differences in local 'dialect'..... whether it's Berlin/Bavaria, Paris/Haute Savoie, Minnesota/Venice Beach/Bronx..... N'est-ce pas?

True, but since I believe we're talking about the "Stouffer Step Wedge", we are talking about an American company founded by an American called David S. Stouffer, who was born, and lived in Indiana, and it's hard to get any more mid-western America than that.