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US grade school textbooks (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 months ago (41 children)

I'm interested in how Americans pronouncebourgeois.

[–] disguy_ovahea 18 points 5 months ago (17 children)

I pronounce it bore-zhwah. Is that wrong?

[–] sensiblepuffin 13 points 5 months ago (15 children)

Feel like that's as correct as we can get, as Americans.

[–] olosta 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

French pronounce the "ou" as is "tour". But you do you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Tour as in tu- er or tore? I've heard it pronounced both ways here in the states

[–] sensiblepuffin 3 points 5 months ago

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

[–] sensiblepuffin 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Bore rhymes with tour.. no?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Bore rhymes with tore. Tour is closer to sewer

[–] sensiblepuffin 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

I've never heard anyone pronounce "tour" as rhymes with "sewer" in English. Perhaps in other languages?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Closer to sewer, or "doer" or "fewer". Compress it to one syllable. Think "ooh" not "ohh".

[–] sensiblepuffin 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm not... correcting you, I'm just explaining that I never hear anyone pronouncing tour such that it rhymes with either pronunciation of sewer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You said you'd never heard it that way, I just wanted to clarify that I communicated the right pronunciation since "sewer" is a bit more drawn out than I meant to imply. All good

[–] sensiblepuffin 2 points 5 months ago

Sorry, I was a little defensive because some others seemed to think I was arguing with you. Your explanation made sense, though.

[–] static09 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Maybe you're pronouncing sewer in thinking of a person who sews instead of sewer as in waste drainage.

[–] sensiblepuffin 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Drainage system = soo-er
Person who sews = soh-er
Exploring a place, with or without a guide = tohr

That's typically how I hear those pronounced. Idk, I get the sense that some think I'm trying to correct the OP when I'm just trying to figure out how the hell something is pronounced.

[–] MutilationWave 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Nah don't get it wrong I get shit because I say tour instead of tore. Poem instead of pOh-ehm. Theatre instead of thee-ate-err

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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".