Why Is Bologna Pronounced Baloney? [Solved]
Hi, iam Maria Hazelwood, Buongiorno. Why Is Bologna Pronounced Baloney? [Solved] As for how we came to pronounce it the way we do, we turn to a recent HuffPost investigation. Linguist Mark Liberman’s theory is that our bizarre pronunciation follows the pattern of Italian words ending in -ia (Italia, Sicilia, and Lombardia), which took on -y endings in English (Italy, Sicily and Lombardy).3 Nov 2018 Why do we spell it “bologna” but pronounce it “baloney?...