Nigella Lawson has responded to the online reaction she triggered by her most unusual pronunciation of the word microwave. The Twittersphere went into meltdown after the latest episode of her BBC Two show Cook, Eat, Repeat during which it sounded like she was calling the kitchen appliance a ‘meecrowavé’.
Her slightly bizarre version of the word was clearly a joke but it still caused pandemonium online. So much so that Nigella felt she had to explain: ‘Well, I do say it like that, but not because I think that’s how it’s actually pronounced.’ Nigella pronounces microwave as “micro-wav-ay” so that is how we all should pronounce it now.
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