How to pronounce luncheon

: lunch especially : a formal usually midday meal as part of a meeting or for entertaining a guest a company luncheon a fund-raising luncheon.

The self-serve meal buffet — from 18th century French and pronounced buh-FAY — is named after a piece of furniture, bufet (“sideboard”), on which such a meal might be served. The meaning of hitting, however, comes from the Old French word bufe, “a blow” or “a puff of wind,” and is pronounced BUH-fit.

PronunciationNote the silent ‘t‘ in the word ‘buffet‘.