Is the T silent in bergamot?
While you often hear bergamot pronounced with a silent ‘t‘ as in ‘burga-mow (‘mow the lawn’), call it ‘burga-mott’ and you’re correctly nodding to its Italian heritage. Grown on small trees that blossom in winter, the fruit is fragrant and orange-sized but closer to lemon in colour.
How do you say the word bergamot?
What does the word bergamot mean?
1a : a round to pear-shaped citrus fruit of a Mediterranean tree (Citrus bergamia synonym C. aurantium bergamia) that has a yellow to green rind which yields a bitter, fragrant essential oil and that is typically considered to be a hybrid of a sour orange and a lemon.