I really would like to know how to correctly pronounce "fondant"! Is it "fond"-"ont", "fond"-"unt"....?! Do you put the emphasis on the beginning of the word, or the last part? I know this sounds like a ridiculous question but I would feel much better if I knew I was pronouncing the word correctly! Thanks for your help.
Well, I'm sure people from different parts of the country say it both ways!
Get this: I was discussing a wedding cake with a lady once for her daughter, and she referred to it as "that cake putty they use for icin'!" 
Yeah...
I thought you'd like that one. Sorry I'm no help!
--Knox--
LOL, just to double check myself I looked it up on dictionary.com. You pronounce it like fond-unt. I made MMF for the first time last night and hubby kept asking what that loaf was on the counter wrapped in plastic. I told him the word 3 times and then he said spell it. LOL, then he said he had never heard of such a thing.
It is funny you asked this question after we had that discussion last night. I thought maybe I wasn't saying it right for him to understand what I was saying. 
It drives me crazy when people say it like "fon-DAHNT" (I'm looking at you, Sandra Lee!)
I THINK YOU ARE LOOKING AT ME TOO--OOOPS--NOW YOU HAVE ME SITTING HERE REPEATING THIS WORD--STILL COMING OUT FON-DUNT/DENT--CRAP CRAP CRAP--I'M CRAZY & NOW I WANT TO KNOW HOW TO PRONOUCE IT CORRECTLY--& MY WHOLE FAMILY & DH'S THINK I TALK LIKE A 'NORTHERNER' spelling??? THIS IS BECAUSE I THINK THAT YOU TURN ON A TV TO WATCH IT & YOU BUY A TV TO OWN IT--SO I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW -at least- HOW THIS SOUTHERN GURL (haha) IS SUPPOSE TO SAY IT 
http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/f/f0230800.html
It is fondent. But to help others out; here is a link to the dictionary with the word and you just hit listen and it will say it for you.
Well, I'm sure people from different parts of the country say it both ways!
Get this: I was discussing a wedding cake with a lady once for her daughter, and she referred to it as "that cake putty they use for icin'!"
--Knox--
i think that i'll just call it putty stuff from now 'on'
i'm just so glad that i don't have learn how to say it differently now
I pronounce it fon'-dent. My cousin insists on calling it fon'-dahnt', like she's in France. But I was a french major and she's not even pronouncing it correctly in french! LOL
That's funny - fon-dahnt. Is that like shopping at Tar-jey instead of Target? I have an old aunt who insists that a vase (vayse) that cost over $25 is pronounce Vahz!
Actually, tastycakes---ummm, your Auntie would be correct in that one lil' area! 
I (as many "well bred" lil' Southern girls have before me) attended the Letitia Baldridge Schoold of Etiquette for Little Girls. And, after that, I actually was made to do the "finishing school" route.
She's right. A "vase" that's priced over $25.00 in value, anywhere in the world, is customarily referred to as a "vase," prounced--Vahz.
But, when I arrest ole' Sadie, she just calls it her "Mason Jar!"
Girls, it's a dang vase!
LOL--Knox-- 
Actually, tastycakes---ummm, your Auntie would be correct in that one lil' area!
I (as many "well bred" lil' Southern girls have before me) attended the Letitia Baldridge Schoold of Etiquette for Little Girls. And, after that, I actually was made to do the "finishing school" route.
She's right. A "vase" that's priced over $25.00 in value, anywhere in the world, is customarily referred to as a "vase," prounced--Vahz.
But, when I arrest ole' Sadie, she just calls it her "Mason Jar!"
Girls, it's a dang vase!
LOL--Knox--
is law enforcement what mama & daddy had in mind when you went to eitquette & finishing school...... 
NO--actually, they paid for law school...
But ARGUING with people wasn't my idea of real fun.
I thought I'd be helping people more this way.
Yeah...Daddy was fine with it. Momma, on the other hand...
--Knox--
my sister is almost 19 and in college for criminology she wants to go to work for the FHP and mama's well.... but like you said she wants to help people also
You guys are too funny! I'll have to show this discussion to my husband. He keeps calling it 'that fondue stuff.'
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