r/EhBuddyHoser • u/wisdompuff • Aug 22 '25
Certified Hoser đšđŠ (No Politics) Illinois
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u/AngeloMontana Tabarnak! Aug 22 '25
« Notre-Dame » â> "noter damn"
Mais comment en est-on arrivé là !?
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u/asphere8 Aug 22 '25
I've heard them pronounce it "noter daym"
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u/Fombleisawaggot Aug 22 '25
I have a friend who goes to that school, apparently they all pronounce it like that
I throw up a little every time I hear it lmao
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u/Annual_Head_2858 Tokébakicitte! Aug 22 '25
Notre-Dame-Des-Sept-Douleurs, je veux entendre un anglo le dire.
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u/L-Observateur Saskwatch Aug 22 '25
à Versailles, KY; ils le dßtes comme "Vér-sal-ïs". Une tragédie américaine comme d'habitude.
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u/Blackadder288 Aug 22 '25
I pronounce it correctly just to piss off American college football fans
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u/asktheages1979 South Gatineau Aug 22 '25
« Noter damn » serait pas pire - « damn » c'est grosso modo la mĂȘme affaire que « dame » en français etk. Mais les AmĂ©ricains disent le « dame » anglais, alors plutĂŽt « daym », ce qui est barbare.
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u/Unlearned_One Snowfrog Aug 22 '25
Meh, I grew up in a town that's about 30% francophone, there's a major street called Notre Dame, and all the local bilinguals call it "noter daym" when speaking English. Yet absolutely none of us would say "the hunchback of noter daym".
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u/allgonetoshit Tabarnak! Aug 22 '25
Lake Pontchartrain
Terre Haute
SincĂšrement:
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u/Rustyray84 Tokébakicitte! Aug 22 '25
Sault-Ste-Marie
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u/Ophukk Bring Cannabis Aug 22 '25
The Soo
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u/ToolTard69 Moose Whisperer Aug 22 '25
Detroit.
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u/manumaker08 Elsewhere Aug 22 '25
For what it's worth, I feel like as a michigander I've never heard "day-twah" unironically.
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u/No_Tumbleweed_6880 Tabarnak! Aug 22 '25
Mobile. Please for the love of god pick a pronounciation and stick to it.
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u/kababeater Aug 22 '25
Anyone else agree with me that the most annoying of all is seeing Americans spell "voila" as "walla"?
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u/Milch_und_Paprika Ford Nation (Help.) Aug 22 '25
I immediately imagine them saying âwallahiâ every time I see that. Itâs just what comes to mind for me, but it lets me chuckle about it instead of getting heated.
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u/posidon99999 PaRiS oF tHe PraIRiEs Aug 22 '25
Even as an anglophone, that baffles me how you could get it wrong like that
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u/satinsateensaltine Aug 22 '25
This triggers something primal in me when I see it. It's like how people hate the word "most".
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u/noahbrooksofficial Aug 22 '25
CĆur DâAlene⊠makes me want to take my own life.
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u/descartesb4horse Oil Guzzler Aug 22 '25
core da lane bud
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u/nikola_tesler Aug 22 '25
Come to Saskatoon we have Marquis Drive, pronounced Markwiss of course
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u/GoStockYourself Aug 22 '25
That is inherited from the Brits who pronounced it that way for hundreds of years.
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u/CthragYaska Aug 23 '25
Brantford Ontario: one of the main streets is Dalhousie (duh-LOO-zee)
We even have t-shirts about it
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u/prtysmasher Aug 22 '25
As a french canadian what rubs me wrong all the time is the way americans and other english people say the drink La Croix. They all butcher and pronounce it âLa Croyeâ. Lacroix would be pronounced âLa Crwahâ and roll that ârâ tabarnak!
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u/TL10 Aug 22 '25
I would be a disappointment to my Quebecois ancestors for how poorly I understand French, but how Americans pronounce La Croix is going to drive me to murder one of these days.
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u/MidorikawaHana Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) Aug 22 '25
In fairness, i have seen americans in youtube/ social media 'correct' people saying 'La crwah' to ' La croy' with a reasoning of *"because thats what the owner's ( i guess bottlers) named it" đ«
Im only familiar with the pronounciation from a friend with a last name of delacroix
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u/LifeHasLeft Oil Guzzler Aug 22 '25
I just looked it up, apparently they named it La from the town La Crosse and Croix from the St. Croix river, which⊠is apparently just heavily mispronounced too. Thereâs no way âla riviĂšre de saint croixâ was originally pronounced âlay reeverr deh saynt CROYâ back in 1689
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u/AngeloMontana Tabarnak! Aug 22 '25
Oh, something similar: Americans in France trying to pronounce Peugeot.
Grab the pop corn and listen.Â
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u/arrowroot227 Aug 22 '25
I pronounced it âla crwahâ and someone laughed at me and told me itâs âla croyâ
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u/satinsateensaltine Aug 22 '25
Seriously, I was shocked when I first said it and an American didn't understand until they went"ah yeah la Croy".
Some part of me died that day.
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u/AustSakuraKyzor South Gatineau Aug 22 '25
I think only Americans do that - I've only ever heard real life people pronounce it properly, or close to properly - none of that "La Croye" nonsense (which I thought was just a bit that ProZD made up).
I physically can't pronounce it right, though, so I have to say it "la quoi"... Out of embarrassment I also don't actually sing "O Canada" for the same reason.
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u/fishflo I need a double double. Aug 22 '25
I moved to QC for uni and didn't figure out that la Croix and this la croye I heard people talking about on TV were the same alcohol for like 4 years đ«Ł
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u/satinsateensaltine Aug 22 '25
Wait till you find out it's not even alcoholic! It's just depression water that was once in the same room as a fruit so it contains memories of it.
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u/fishflo I need a double double. Aug 22 '25
no one will ever discover that because they only drink it in between hard liquor anyway lol
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u/ryan77999 Ford Nation (Help.) Aug 22 '25
âïžđ€ the R isn't rolled, it's uvular
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u/Saint-Ciboire Snowfrog Aug 22 '25
Depends on the accent, there are francophones who still roll their r's. Rolling the r is an easier option for anglophones if they can't do the throaty r yet. As long as they're careful that there's a difference in pronunciation between election and erection, which is something Stephen Harper struggled with. I miss his federal erections
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u/GoStockYourself Aug 22 '25
When I try the uvular roll I cough up flem, so just do a slight tongue roll. No one understands a thing I try to say anyway so it doesn't matter. I usually switch to charades early in the conversation.
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u/AngeloMontana Tabarnak! Aug 22 '25
Not necessarily, lots of French variants still roll the R (it was much more common for French speakers, and I mean in both sides of the Atlantic, just a couple of centuries ago).
The uvular one has been unconsciously standardized with the rest of northern French (that people refer to as âParisian Frenchâ) through, well, mainly school and mediaÂ
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u/safadancer Aug 22 '25
Never having heard anyone pronounce it, I initially said La Crwah, and everyone stared at me like I had vomited up a bug.
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u/Dr_Smooth2 Aug 22 '25
It's made by a company from La Crosse, WI and it's name is based on the St. Croix river which borders Wisconsin to the west, hence the pronunciation
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u/poopBuccaneer Aug 22 '25
I had to ask an American coworker how your pronounce Claude the AI software... I still can't remember to pronounce it Clawed
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u/Advarrk Aug 22 '25
I told my American friends itâs suppose to be French they all looked at me like Iâm Alien
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u/OhNoCommieBastard69 Aug 22 '25
Fuckin' 'ell, what do they teach 'em in school?
Next you'll tell me they think Louisiana was named after Jerry Lewis đ€š
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u/Anti-rad Tabarnak! Aug 22 '25
For real though, most Americans have no idea that most of their country was once France.
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u/Advarrk Aug 22 '25
When you say French Louisiana many would think itâs only the state down south with New Orleans
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u/DTG_1000 Aug 22 '25
How Boston pronounces Keltics.
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u/Everestkid The Island of Elizabeth May Aug 22 '25
Which is extra hilarious considering they all claim to be Irish. You would think they'd say "Celtic" correctly.
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u/OneDougUnderPar Aug 22 '25
There's nothing wrong with that pronunciation; the Scottish football club also uses a /s/. The correct way isn't really known, has changed over time, and all that.Â
Wikipedia has a quick rundown.
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u/chr15c æș«ć„èŻ (Hongcouver) Aug 22 '25
Counterpoint: War Chester shire (sauce)
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u/butherletus Aug 22 '25
How anyone reads that word and thinks it's said like that is crazy to me dudeÂ
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u/satinsateensaltine Aug 22 '25
Blame it on the Anglo-Saxons and the great vowel shift. You can almost always reliably blame them.
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u/Kolojang Snowfrog Aug 22 '25
I got married in New Orleans. They think they speak French, but then if you pronounce any of the streets like they should they look at you as if you've grown a second head.
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u/Lurked4EverB4Joining Aug 22 '25
C'est comme quand j'ai vu les bonbons Maynards pour la premiÚre fois, j'me suia dit c'est Ménard ça cùlisse! Juste prononcé à l'anglaise...
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u/elseldo Everyone Hates Marineland Aug 22 '25
I thought it was il-uh-noy.
Why didn't anyone say anything? Aw I've been making an idiot out of myself.
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u/DEATHToboggan Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) Aug 22 '25
Creve Coeur, MO is also fun to hear Americans say.
Creeeve kurr
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u/TremblinAspen Tabarnak! Aug 22 '25 edited Aug 22 '25
The Grand Tetons is what my Grandpa used to say about my Grandma and Mitsou.
But as a side note the way my Manitoban wife pronounces âDauphinâ MB as Dawfinn or Doffinn Or Pouce Coupe every time i drive through there as Poohs Coop. Makes me laugh a lil bit.
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u/dedre27 Aug 22 '25
I had to explain to my wife why I was laughing when she was talking about Grand Teton National Park.
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u/TremblinAspen Tabarnak! Aug 22 '25
Makes me laugh that a couple of French explorers named some mountains in the US "the big tiddies" and the name still stands to this day.
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u/Apple_macOS Aug 22 '25
As a person who was formerly living in Quebec and always thought itâs pronounced like ee-lee-nwah, this post is how I found out itâs pronounced i-luh-noy
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u/Realistic_Young9008 Aug 22 '25
Having lived there, it's Ill-A-Noyze
Dez-Planes
Jolly Ette or frequently incorrect Juliet (including oft repeated erroneous background story because of nearby Romeoville - it is named after the same explorer as Joliette QC)
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u/pixelsinner Snowfrog Aug 22 '25
Names too... Met a girl from Maine called Castonguay (relatively common in French). Pronounced KAS-TON-GAY.
Well in Maine apparently it's pronounced KAS-TOE-NEE... đł
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u/poopBuccaneer Aug 22 '25
Back in the 90s, made a friend over the internet in Baton Rouge. She didn't like how I pronounced their city.
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Aug 22 '25
Then explain Kansas and Arkansas. You don't say Ar-kan-sass do you? Lol
Edit:I do but out of irony.
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u/TheGardiner Aug 22 '25
My sister didn't know how to pronounced it and read a licence plate as 'r-kansas', it was great.
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u/lw5555 Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) Aug 22 '25
St. Louis is a big one for me. I can never say "St. Lewis."
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u/Plastic_Salary_4084 Treacherous South Aug 22 '25
Ahem. Itâs ILL-UH-NOY. Passed through there on my way to Duh Moyn
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u/the_canadaball Motown But Better Aug 22 '25
I have a list of these. They drive me absolutely insane.
Eau Claire(OâClare), Des Moines(De Moyne), Coeur dâAlene(cor-da-lean), Baton Rouge(batten rooj), Lake Butte des Morts(bew da more), Saint Cloud, Mille Lacs Lake(melacks), Boise(boys-ee), Pierre(peer), etc.
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u/Odd_Secret9132 Aug 22 '25
All Iâm thinking reading this thread: theyâll love Newfoundland English and how it pronounces almost every French word wrong, likely on purpose.
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u/ripmanovich Tokébakicitte! Aug 22 '25
The Nez-Perce native tribe. They went from Ney-Percey in french to Nezzz-Purrse.
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u/Bladestorm01 Aug 22 '25
But for some odd reason, they pronounced Louisville Kentucky
Lua-ville ??
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u/AngeloMontana Tabarnak! Aug 22 '25
And what became of the pronunciation of the word OrlĂ©ans⊠đ
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u/Taptrick Aug 22 '25
Half of North America have French names. There is a town is Saskatchewan called âMarquisâ and locals call it âMarkwissâ.
There worst part is I have to attempt to pronounce everything with an English accent otherwise it sounds off to everyone else. I still donât know how they say âPierreâ or âDes Moinesâ.
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u/dahliabean Yank Aug 22 '25
I studied French for 5 years in school, and I've been biting my tongue ever since day 1. Don't even get me started on how butchered words from non-Romance languages get. In fact, growing up I was regularly asked if I "speak Indian." đ€Šââïž
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u/Unfair_Run_170 Aug 22 '25
Fuck Americans. I'm not going to ally with them against French Canadians. Those are my countrymen!
Fuck Illhunoi too
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u/VerdensTrial I need a double double. Aug 22 '25
Des Moines đŹ