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If the sausage Bologna is pronounced "Balloney" in english, how is the city of Bologna pronounced? (feddit.de)
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Side note: It's also called Parizer in reference to Paris, the city that is neither Bologna, nor Lyon, another french city which would be the actual origin of the sausage.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Im sure if you go to Italy it's not pronounced balloney,and that the evolution of the language has contorted the way it should be said. However, that's not guaranteed, for example, the French city of Riems, is pronounced "ranse", nothing like what it should, if the usual rules are followed.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm Italian, there is no Bologna sausage in Italy. The American stuff is a bad mock up of mortadella, which is a Bolognese kind of sausage, hence the name Bologna.

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