They had dined on horse meat, horse cheese, horse black pudding, horse d'oeuvres, and a thin beer that Rincewind didn't want to speculate about.
— Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic
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Every letter after the first is completely unnecessary.
Niche drives me nuts as a French speaker. It is not Nitch. It is Knee-shh. I will die on this hill
As a non-French speaker, I completely agree with you. If I use a borrowed word, I do my best to pronounce it like a native speaker would.
As a colonizer, I consider it my duty to butcher borrowed/foreign words. You should hear me say bolognese.
Baloneys?
Buh-LOG-nees.
It's an Italian sauce. Actually pronounced like bolonays
Ouch.
Could y'all please stop dieing on hills all the time?! I love hiking, but all the corpses are really disturbing.
Nietzsche
Here you go, now nobody's happy
That K is unnecessary in Knee-shh
People will complain about that but not look twice at "rendezvous".
I don't think that I've ever heard anybody pronounce "chaise longue" correctly. It's "shay long".
Actually (pronounced acktschually) it’s ‘shayz long’ The ‘s’ is usually only silent when it’s the last letter of the word.
You should hear how the French pronounce it. Can’t even recognise it as English anymore.
Why do you say that? It's just chez long. At worst it's like chez long-uh. So it's really just a different accent more than anything. Also, the word is french not english so..
I think you got whooshed on that last english part.
Hah.. yeah, you're right xD. My bad
Shez Long
It literally means long chair. Not lounge chair.
Nobody pronounces "bruschetta" correctly; it's "broo-SKET-ta"
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chez ≠ chaise
Make it just a little bit worse, that œ hits the spot:
d'œuvre
The word ok expecting me to spell it out instead of pronouncing it like oak.
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Gabagool
Good name for an equine cleaner.
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