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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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    aaa@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    You’re welcome!
    
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