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09th May 2016

Have you been pronouncing these alcoholic beverages incorrectly?

Whoops we've been saying these wrong the entire time!

Laura Holland

There’s nothing better than meeting with friends and sipping on a few cocktails. 

Consuming the drink is no problem, but when it comes to ordering, it can sometimes be quite tricky to execute the correct pronunciation. If it’s a toughy it usually results in people pointing to the menu saying, ‘I’ll have that one’.

I always thought Hoegaarden was pronounced ‘Hoe-Garden’ but it’s actually ‘Who-gar-den’.

Here are some other commonly mispronounced alcoholic beverages according to SousVideTools.com: