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minus-squaremanucode@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoI’m interested in how Americans pronouncebourgeois.
minus-squareZoboomafoo@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoas long as the French get offended by the pronunciation, then it’s pronounced correctly in American
minus-squarewhotookkarl@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months ago‘Boojz wah’, or if I’m feeling silly bourguignon. But I’d probably be more likely to use ‘middle class’ instead of the French.
minus-squaredisguy_ovahea@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoI pronounce it bore-zhwah. Is that wrong?
minus-squaresensiblepuffin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoFeel like that’s as correct as we can get, as Americans.
minus-squareolosta@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoFrench pronounce the “ou” as is “tour”. But you do you.
minus-squareagamemnonymous@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agoBore rhymes with tore. Tour is closer to sewer
minus-squaresensiblepuffin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·edit-24 months agoI’ve never heard anyone pronounce “tour” as rhymes with “sewer” in English. Perhaps in other languages?
I’m interested in how Americans pronouncebourgeois.
as long as the French get offended by the pronunciation, then it’s pronounced correctly in American
Boo shwa zee
‘Boojz wah’, or if I’m feeling silly bourguignon. But I’d probably be more likely to use ‘middle class’ instead of the French.
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?
Bore rhymes with tore. Tour is closer to sewer
I’ve never heard anyone pronounce “tour” as rhymes with “sewer” in English. Perhaps in other languages?