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• evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If you are speaking English the correct pronunciation is different than if you are speaking French.

  Similar to Paris, information, service, raisin, journal, and many, many other words that are used in both languages.

  The English word croissant is pronounced something like krə-sänt, though I’m sure there’s plenty of regional variation.

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• Jimbo@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  US would say something like Criss-ant, UK would say something like Criss-ont

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  • MrQuallzin@pie.eyeofthestorm.place ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    My family in the Pacific Northwest settled on Crah-saunt (both ah and au being long A’s, like in raw)

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    • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s arguable that the only difference between that and the French pronunciation is the accent, and that, unless one holds that one has to convincingly affect a French accent when saying French loanwords, “crah-saun” would be correct. (Though pronouncing the trailing ‘t’ may sound a bit gauche.)

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    • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah, PNW pronunciation is “cross-aunt” with that pnw thing where you just imply the t instead of actually saying it (as with ‘accent’ or ‘that’)

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      • aaa@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        There’s a term for that, I think, such as substituting “d” in place of “t” is called “t-flapping”. Damping or muting, maybe.

        Checked with quora and they say it’s T-glottalization, where the “t” is replaced by a glottal stop (the hitch in the back of your throat when saying “uh oh, for example), and apocope or deletion, where the sound is omitted entirely.

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  • DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Image

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    • applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      bonjernuh

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• BurntWits@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Where I live (Canada, not Quebec) we mostly either do a mocking pronunciation similar to the OP or “cruh-SONT” if we’re pronouncing it normally.

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• redwattlebird@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  “Cruzzant” out in regional Australia

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  • Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Big ol cruzzi

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• valar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  In American English, its usually something like cross-aunt

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• kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  kroissantti🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮

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  • manuremy@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    KROIssanttti

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• Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Crescent roll

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• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Krussant

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• riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Crows Aunt

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• RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  CrawSahnt is hor I would transliterate the American pronunciation. With the emphasis on the second syllable.

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• Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The have a whole thing about doing their own pronunciations because using the original one from the language they are borrowing from is apparently either pretentious or racist depending on how superior they feel.

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