Watch: Nigella Lawson on that microwavé pronunciation - BBC News (video)
Food author and TV chef Nigella Lawson has said she is now too self conscious to say the word “microwave” after her unique take on the word went viral.
A clip of her calling the kitchen appliance a “meecro-wah-vay” circulated online back in 2020.
She was speaking to BBC Breakfast’s Jon Kay, who told her many people urged him to ask her about it.
“That’s what I call it at home,” Lawson said, and joked she called it “the ‘you know what’ now”.
“meecro-wah-vay” … my R’s … she’s up her own R’s … 
