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To further this one last time as to why savoury never has and never will be a good synonym for umami is that savoury is a very precise word with a fairly narrow definition while umami describes a much broader taste. Savoury specifically only refers to things which are seasoned with things like salt and spices and which isn't sweet. The people who try to insist savoury and umami are interchangeable continually confuse that because they give the word savoury a much wider meaning than it has.
There are of course many foods that are both savoury and umami. A piece of chicken roasted with salt, garlic and herbs is a perfect example. It has the umami nature of the meat and then it has the savoury nature of the seasonings. However by contrast, if that same piece of chicken was simply boiled with no salt or any other seasonings it is still umami, but it is not savoury. They try to distract, but by it's definition it is not and no one familiar with English would refer to it as savoury. This is one of the various proofs that those trying to insist the two words are interchangeable are fundamentally unfamiliar with English.
To further the point still, that same piece of chicken could be cooked up with a glaze of honey, butter and garlic. That chicken again would still be umami but it would also still not be savoury. Savoury very specifically only refers to foods seasoned in a way such that they are not sweet. The chicken could be referred to as luscious, decadent or scrumptious but would not be called savoury. Again, this is a repeated error that the ESL detractors frequently make. It's because they have a limited vocabulary that they try to label all manner of things as savoury where it simply doesn't belong.
