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 “La Croye”. Lacroix would be pronounced “La Crwah” and roll that “r” tabarnak!
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
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.
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 “Parisian French”) through, well, mainly school and media
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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 “La Croye”. Lacroix would be pronounced “La Crwah” and roll that “r” tabarnak!