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minus-squaremanucode@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoI’m interested in how Americans pronouncebourgeois.
minus-squaredisguy_ovahea@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoI pronounce it bore-zhwah. Is that wrong?
minus-squaresensiblepuffin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoFeel like that’s as correct as we can get, as Americans.
minus-squareolosta@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·5 months agoFrench pronounce the “ou” as is “tour”. But you do you.
minus-squareZoboomafoo@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoas long as the French get offended by the pronunciation, then it’s pronounced correctly in American
I’m interested in how Americans pronouncebourgeois.
I pronounce it bore-zhwah. Is that wrong?
Feel like that’s as correct as we can get, as Americans.
French pronounce the “ou” as is “tour”. But you do you.
Bore rhymes with tour… no?
We just say bourgeois
as long as the French get offended by the pronunciation, then it’s pronounced correctly in American