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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

How else would you pronounce it? Croy-sant?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"See Roy? SS ant."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I usually say croissant.

But I'm french so what do I know?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I'm curious now if there are English words (American or the fancy kind) that non-native speakers commonly over-pronounce when goofing around in a similar way.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I can't remember where I saw it but there was a Polish guy who could not say "earlier". He kept saying it like "air lee air" and eventually gave up and said "before" with almost no accent.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Americans basically did this with English phrase 'Each to their own' and turned it into 'to each their own' just to sound fancier. Then it caught on and now you all say it this way.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

that non-native speakers commonly over-pronounce when goofing around in a similar way.

Aluminum? Or is that more of a 'regional differences' thang?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If I were a Brit I would definitely make it a point to bust out my worst American accent and call it Alumin(no i)um whenever possible.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

The spelling and pronunciation that brits hate was made by a brit. guy couldn't seem to remember what he named the metal and kept calling it slightly different things while his peers wanted it to have the same word ending as other elements.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Squirrel" for me. I can either pronounce it with a huge french accent or with a huge bad American accent. No in-between.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I'm really struggling to imagine 'squirrel' said with a French accent, what happens to that 'rr' sound?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

By IPA standards, it's technically "kʁwasɑ̃".

While closer than "krəˈsɑːnt", "quâssòń" isn't fooling any French person.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

As a frenchman, if find "quâssòn" really cute, like someone trying their best to pronounce it correctly and falling just a bit short. I also love the sound of it, for some reason it sounds kinda stylish to me