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I've been saying it wrong for forever. To be fair, I'm a native Francophone, so it was just natural to read it as "fwah" (which is also how the variant "foy" is pronounced.)
Oh, me too! I pronounce it as 'fwah' as I grew up hearing Quebecois!
Me too. Fwah. (Looks awful written like that. :) )
Foreign words coming into another language get wrung into a new form. It's almost a miracle that even one syllable comes through intact!
Foix is pronouned Fosh in Catalan; it's the name of a minor river and artificial lake, between Barcelona and Tarragona.
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Jul 23, 2019 03:58PM
I've been saying it wrong for forever. To be fair, I'm a native Francophone, so it was just natural to read it as "fwah" (which is also how the variant "foy" is pronounced.)
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Oh, me too! I pronounce it as 'fwah' as I grew up hearing Quebecois!
Me too. Fwah. (Looks awful written like that. :) )
Foreign words coming into another language get wrung into a new form. It's almost a miracle that even one syllable comes through intact!
Foix is pronouned Fosh in Catalan; it's the name of a minor river and artificial lake, between Barcelona and Tarragona.
