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rkomornyesterday at 5:30 PM1 replyview on HN

I'm always amused by some mispronunciations that stray farther away from the original than necessary.

My favorite is probably crepe, which Americans pronounce like an almost diphthong-y craype (or crape like grape I guess) when crep (like step) would do just fine and be closer to the original.

But as a native French and basically-native American speaker, I also couldn't really care less about it, or about things like Americans pronouncing the t in croissant, or French people being unable to say the.


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tracker1yesterday at 7:02 PM

The plural is what gets me though crepes (just sounds weird as krehps vs krayps).

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