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I'm interested in how Americans pronouncebourgeois.
as long as the French get offended by the pronunciation, then it's pronounced correctly in American
Burgers
Boogers please. We ain't no uppity frogs.
"job creators"
I'm actually something of a job creator myself. Last week at the grocery store I didn't return my cart to the coral. They had to pay someone to go out and bring it in!
We just say bourgeois
I personally pronounce it fahrenheit
Boo shwa zee
I pronounce it bore-zhwah. Is that wrong?
Feel like that's as correct as we can get, as Americans.
French pronounce the "ou" as is "tour". But you do you.
Tour as in tu- er or tore? I've heard it pronounced both ways here in the states
Whoa what? I've never heard anyone pronounce tour as tu-er. At that point you might as well slap an umlaut on that bad boy
Bore rhymes with tour.. no?
In most American dialects and some British dialects, "bore" and "tour" rhyme (called the "pour-poor merger"). But in some dialects it may rhyme with "sewer"/"two-er" or have the same sound as in "blue" or even as in "were".
Aha. See, that explains the disconnect. Thank you.
A more aggressively American pronunciation would be bore-ge-oh-is.
'Boojz wah', or if I'm feeling silly bourguignon. But I'd probably be more likely to use 'middle class' instead of the French.
Bourxjeauxaseaux
Borzshwah
I and anyone I've heard say the word says it the same as the English pronunciation in this random video I found searching for how to pronounce it. For whatever that small sample size is worth.
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Beurj-wah