Bouquet

I just heard a radio commercial for Kentucky Fried Chicken in which he was talking about a "boo-kett" of this ... even down here in the south, for a radio announcer to pronounce bouquet as "boo-kett"? Anyone else heard this commercial?

I'm the wrong side of the Atlantic have heard it.
Might it have been an unusual pronunciation of "bucket".

Peter Duncanson
UK
(posting from a.e.u)

I just heard a radio commercial for Kentucky Fried Chicken ... to pronounce bouquet as "boo-kett"? Anyone else heard this commercial?

I'm the wrong side of the Atlantic have heard it. Might it have been an unusual pronunciation of "bucket".

Nah, that's usually pronounced 'boo-kay' (as does the BBC's Hyacinth Bucket of 'Keeping Up Appearances').

I just heard a radio commercial for Kentucky Fried Chicken in which he was talking about a "boo-kett" of this ... even down here in the south, for a radio announcer to pronounce bouquet as "boo-kett"? Anyone else heard this commercial?

From my part of the world, I would assume he was saying "bucket".

I just heard a radio commercial for Kentucky Fried Chicken in which he was talking about a "boo-kett" of this ... and try to be more precise, but can there be any other word than "bouquet" that he was trying for?

Cf. British comic TV series, Keeping Up
Appearances, about the suburban Buckett
couple (pron. bouquet.)

Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)

I just heard a radio commercial for Kentucky Fried Chicken ... any other word than "bouquet" that he was trying for?

Cf. British comic TV series, Keeping Up Appearances, about the suburban Buckett couple (pron. bouquet.)

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"Gary Eickmeier" > I just heard a radio commercial for Kentucky Fried Chicken in which he

was talking about a "boo-kett" of this and that, culminating, ofcourse, in a "boo-kett" of fried chicken. I'll listen closer ... it possible, even down here in the south,for a radio announcer to pronounce bouquet as "boo-kett"? Anyone elseheard this commercial?

MIGHT be even " Book " " Eight " more likely a deal on the Kentucky Fried Chicken.

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I just heard a radio commercial for Kentucky Fried Chicken in which he was talking about a "boo-kett" of this ... even down here in the south, for a radio announcer to pronounce bouquet as "boo-kett"? Anyone else heard this commercial?

No, but I'm inclined to think it a variant pronunciation of "bucket", although a pun on "bouquet" may have been intended. KFC have sold their product by the "bucket" for years.

Odysseus

I just heard a radio commercial for Kentucky Fried Chicken ... to pronounce bouquet as "boo-kett"? Anyone else heard this commercial?

No, but I'm inclined to think it a variant pronunciation of "bucket", although a pun on "bouquet" may have been intended. KFC have sold their product by the "bucket" for years.

I learned to pronounce it "bo-kay" a long time ago in Texas. I have learned French since, but still pronounce it that way. "Boo-kay" sounds a tad pretentious, though I'm aware that my pronunciation is decidedl;y regional. Anybody in Texas around? How do they say it now? I'll find a Bostonian to ask soon and get back with that one..

Just checked with my wife, who is from Chicago she says "bo-kay," too.
AHD4 has both bo-kay and boo-kay, in that order.
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