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I am el french (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] 17 points 4 months ago (5 children)

My family in the Pacific Northwest settled on Crah-saunt (both ah and au being long A's, like in raw)

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah, PNW pronunciation is "cross-aunt" with that pnw thing where you just imply the t instead of actually saying it (as in 'accent' or 'that')

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

    There’s a term for that, I think, such as substituting “d” in place of “t” is called “t-flapping”. Damping or muting, maybe.

    Checked with quora and they say it’s T-glottalization, where the "t" is replaced by a glottal stop (the hitch in the back of your throat when saying “uh oh”, for example), and apocope or deletion, where the sound is omitted entirely.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    It’s arguable that the only difference between that and the French pronunciation is the accent, and that, unless one holds that one has to convincingly affect a French accent when saying French loanwords, “crah-saun” would be correct. (Though pronouncing the trailing ‘t’ may sound a bit gauche.)

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