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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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      • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Oh how cool, thank you!

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• DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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  • applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    bonjernuh

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