Oven or Oven?

Gavin Scott · Tue 16 Jun, 2009 22.30

Do you say "oven" with the "o" as in "toe",

or do you say "oven" with the "o" as in "muff"?

Pleases respond. I needs it for a project.

iSon · Tue 16 Jun, 2009 22.34

Muff. And it's rare to hear me say that.

Pete · Tue 16 Jun, 2009 22.36

Muff for me too. I've had many an argument with the foolish toe types who frequent this end of the country.

Jake · Tue 16 Jun, 2009 22.48

Muff for me too, sounds wrong otherwise

Malpass93 · Tue 16 Jun, 2009 22.48

Uven.

I can't imagine saying it any other way.

Chie · Tue 16 Jun, 2009 22.55

Uven.

marksi · Tue 16 Jun, 2009 23.44

Somewhere inbetween. And I've checked but BBC Pronunciation has no guidance for "oven".

timgraham · Wed 17 Jun, 2009 00.03

Who on earth says ohven?

Uhven.

Nick Harvey · Wed 17 Jun, 2009 00.10

Yeah, I'm with the muffs too.

martindtanderson · Wed 17 Jun, 2009 01.32

ah-vun for me

cdd · Wed 17 Jun, 2009 02.06

Right time for some threadjacking though at the risk of snubbing the admin I might say it's an improvement.

I have a new oven. It is nice because it has an oven and a microwave built in. This is all very well but it pisses me off in two ways.

Firstly, you can't set the oven temperature except in 25 degree increments. EVERYTHING I cook demands to be cooked at 190 degrees, and yet I am forced to go for 200. Same problem for the timer, which only goes on 15 second increments.

Secondly, the microwave part lets you set the wattage to cook at. This is all very well, but it doesn't actaully reduce the power at all. It simply cooks at max power and turns off the microwaving element every x seconds, which is of course not the same as cooking at a lower wattage.

Neither of these things should matter too much but I'm a real OCD type and these things bug the hell out of me.

Oh, Uven by the way. Like any southener!