I Am On The Verge Of Feeling Pretty Stupid!
Decorating By tobycat Updated 28 Jul 2006 , 4:21am by cakesbyjess
I think if you have gone to a pastry school in europe for a certain amount of time, you just can't pronounce it any other way than fondaunt. Then there is the rest of the human race......
But I have to say, I went to the cake club and heard someone say DRAWshays, I didn't know what the heck she was talking about. I thought it was pronounced Drag ease. (Dragees) The little gold and silver balls for cake decorating. How do Y'all pronounce that, I wonder?
So what would you rename it if you could?
Something very weird with the different ways of speaking is within a week of staying with my parents and family in Tennesee I swear we start to talk a bit southern but when they come to visit us they never come close to losing their accents. 
Something I have never been able to adjust to when we visit is the coke/cola/soda/pop thing. Talk about confusing!
I pronounce Dragees as Dragays. My mother is from the southern mountains of WV and still has an accent after 50 years in Buffalo!! I also have an aunt who still lives there, I am not sure exactly where she is from (Maryland, I think) and she is a riot to listen to. I have never heard anyone else ever who talks like her. She says things like "I done done that" It always cracks me up. 
I love her!!!!!! Dialects are great!!! Now, I think I will go get a "pop" and try to get some work done today!!
Something I have never been able to adjust to when we visit is the coke/cola/soda/pop thing. Talk about confusing!
My husband doesn't understand how a Pepsi or Mountain Dew can be called a "coke" he's always lived where it's pop.
If Colette Peters can call it fond"ant" and not fondaunt, that 's good enough for me. 
I'm sitting at my desk attempting to 'work' and trying not to laugh out loud as I'm reading this post. I've been reading how other people say fondant and I think I'm in the fondint crew. But now I've been here and I've been saying all the versions out loud- fondaunt (blech)- fondunt- fondant-fondnt-fondent and my coworkers think I'm nuts and I can't figure out how I said it before I read this! Pardon me I must be having a blonde moment!
I do know that I say soda and not pop.
Okay, so I had to re-look up the word because someone said it came from the French, and it did, (fondre -- meaning "to melt" BUT it originally came from the Latin "fundere" <-------- Now this sounds FUN to me! Pass me a piece of the FUNDERE please; I've got to color some FUNDERE. I think I could go with this....at least when I'm talking to me, myself, and I!
Hey, when in Rome....
Anyway, you guys are the best....I don't feel stupid any more!
Sarah
I have been laughing out loud reading this entire thread!! Like everyone else, it drives me batty when someone says fon-daunt!!!! Someone mentioned earlier that during a wedding cake appointment, the bride kept saying fondaunt even though the decorator kept saying fondant. That has happened to me in wedding appointments before, too!! I, too, was about ready to tell the bride that if she couldn't pronounce it correctly, she could find someone else to make her wedding cake!!!!! I agree that it just sounds so hoity-toity when it is pronounced fon-daunt!!!! Thanks, everyone, for the belly laughs!!!!!!
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