Why do so many pronounce it "ate-touffe"?

I've never heard ate-touffe. ay 2 fay

How not to pronounce etouffee

or like this

How do you pronounce it?

eh?

It's eh-too-fey.

et-tu-brutey

Smother yourself...

Et-too-Fay is as lame as saying coo-chon instead of co-chon, or pee-row instead of lightly pronouncing the g in pirogue. Sad that we're losing our French accents....

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t's a French word. Proper spelling is étouffée. The accent above the two e's requires an "ay" pronunciation. That's pretty much it.

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There you go. Ay too Fay is correct. Et too Fay is incorrect. That said, the long "a" in French is pronounced slightly differently than in the US.