• manucode
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    497 months ago

    I’m interested in how Americans pronouncebourgeois.

    • @[email protected]
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      607 months ago

      as long as the French get offended by the pronunciation, then it’s pronounced correctly in American

      • @MehBlah
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        147 months ago

        Boogers please. We ain’t no uppity frogs.

      • @RagingRobot
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        27 months ago

        I’m actually something of a job creator myself. Last week at the grocery store I didn’t return my cart to the coral. They had to pay someone to go out and bring it in!

    • @Got_Bent
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      207 months ago

      I personally pronounce it fahrenheit

        • @[email protected]
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          27 months ago

          Lol Idk I’m not a linguist, me probably from hearing it pronounced that way in media.

          “DOWN WITH THE BOURGEOISIE!”

          Seems like it comes from the French pronunciation? Idk man

      • @sensiblepuffin
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        137 months ago

        Feel like that’s as correct as we can get, as Americans.

        • @olosta
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          27 months ago

          French pronounce the “ou” as is “tour”. But you do you.

            • @sensiblepuffin
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              37 months ago

              Whoa what? I’ve never heard anyone pronounce tour as tu-er. At that point you might as well slap an umlaut on that bad boy

              • @sensiblepuffin
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                I’ve never heard anyone pronounce “tour” as rhymes with “sewer” in English. Perhaps in other languages?

                • @[email protected]
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                  57 months ago

                  Closer to sewer, or “doer” or “fewer”. Compress it to one syllable. Think “ooh” not “ohh”.

                  • @sensiblepuffin
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                    17 months ago

                    I’m not… correcting you, I’m just explaining that I never hear anyone pronouncing tour such that it rhymes with either pronunciation of sewer.

                • @static09
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                  27 months ago

                  Maybe you’re pronouncing sewer in thinking of a person who sews instead of sewer as in waste drainage.

                  • @sensiblepuffin
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                    Drainage system = soo-er
                    Person who sews = soh-er
                    Exploring a place, with or without a guide = tohr

                    That’s typically how I hear those pronounced. Idk, I get the sense that some think I’m trying to correct the OP when I’m just trying to figure out how the hell something is pronounced.

                • @MutilationWave
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                  7 months ago

                  Nah don’t get it wrong I get shit because I say tour instead of tore. Poem instead of pOh-ehm. Theatre instead of thee-ate-err

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              7 months ago

              In most American dialects and some British dialects, “bore” and “tour” rhyme (called the “pour-poor merger”). But in some dialects it may rhyme with “sewer”/“two-er” or have the same sound as in “blue” or even as in “were”.

              • @sensiblepuffin
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                17 months ago

                Aha. See, that explains the disconnect. Thank you.

    • @whotookkarl
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      117 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.

    • @Wilzax
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      Beurj-wah