What is the correct pronunciation of 'waffle'? Last evening a female friend had a dessert and asked for a waffle, she pronounced it 'Woffal', I said that its a waffle (sounds like raffle) and that her pronunciation is a term used for someone who talks and talks about nothing, which do you think is correct, or does it depend on what part of the country you're from, though she was born and raised near where I have lived all my life.
I checked Chambers, MacMillan and Cambridge dictionaries - Waffle/awful seems to be the pronunciation given. Waffle/raffle sounds horrible to me, rather discordant!
In English the "w" alters the following vowel in many cases. "War" is pronounced "Wor", "work" becomes "wurk", "wonder" becomes "wunder" to rhyme with blunder. (Even where there is an "h" in between. Hence "what" becomes "wot".)
Remember those old ads about the "Wonder of Woollies", where any problem encountered by Woolworths gave rise to the headlines "Blunder of Woollies" ?