Comment on If a contestant on Jeopardy! gave the correct response "Alexandre Dumas" but pronounced the surname as "dumb ass", would the response be accepted?

NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  French speakers are almost certainly not pronouncing it the way he himself pronounced it due to dialect drift. His father also lived in Haiti for a time so the pronunciation might be even further muddled.

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• ultranaut@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  W. E. B. DuBois

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