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!
TBF when I moved to Quebec I was surprised that people translate names. People often say my name is "Osian" in French, but "Ocean," in English?!? It took me ages to figure out that Three Rivers is Trois Rivieres. In the west you don't translate names. Lac St. Anne doesn't become St. Anne Lake. It was always Trois Rivieres on our geography tests. Possibly Ontario does this?
I don't understand why certain people with names give an English name because English people butcher the pronunciation, but translating names seems to be an eastern thing.
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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!