How do you pronounce 'croissant'?

[ClaudiaWankleman]

It's probably the only word that I can feel myself thinking about pronunciation as I begin the sentence. There are so many different pronunciations.

1. The French way - my preferred way as I do speak French quite well. Nonetheless, I doubt myself, especially if I'm in the company of people I don't know very well. Will I sound pretentious or silly?
2. Cwoss-ont
3. Cwass-ont
4. Cross-ont
5. Crass-ont
6. Cwazz-ont
7. Cwozz-ont
8. Any of (2)-(8) with an 'ant' sound at the end instead of 'ont'.
9. Another pronunciation

And yes, before anyone says it, I could've used IPA to write these pronunciations. But I haven't, because I don't want to and I'll enjoy any misunderstandings which arise in the comments.

Hang on, have I completely misunderstood what a rolled R is? I thought rolling your rs was like a trill on the R, like Davide in Love Island.

Isn't the r is croissant that throaty sound similar to Croix?

4 if I'm speaking English.

I'm not consistent, though, because I'll say 'pie-ay-yah' not 'pie-ella'.

3

This is what I call it
From the north west of England

2

3

Number 5

Maybe more of an Ant than ont sound

Like im saying Aunt weirdly

This but when I say this I’m not always understood as it’s usually said with a t sound at the end.
An older family member used to say core-riz-sant and was always understood perfectly.

In terms of where to buy a good croissant in the UK, if you can't get to a proper bakery I think Lidl knocks spots off a lot of the supermarkets. And France is my favourite holiday destination so I eat quite a lot of croissants.

I say it the French way which is the only way! Everything else is wrong. It's but even hard to say, even DH can manage and he once asked for sancherry in a restaurant in Paris. (sancerre!)

Not, obviously, rather than but

I really have no idea. I don't know how I would represent a gutteral r. I didn't write the French pronunciation for a reason.

How do you pronounce 'croissant'?

Bun.

Me too. I'm fluent in French but don't pronounce things quite as Frenchly when talking to non French speakers.

Pain au chocolat makes me laugh because a lot of people put an exaggerated "lar" sound on the end thinking that makes it sound French instead of the open "la" sound it should be (like in the middle of "black")

Kwass-on with my normal accent. Probably more Kwazz-on when actually in France. I'd feel ridiculous saying any variation of crossont anywhere.

I speak French, but for the purposes of ordering one from, say, Greggs and wanting to be understood, I simply say, 'cross-ont'

Even worse , what do you ask for in the shop if you want Nougat?

As a kid my mum made me call it noogaa with proper French pronunciation , but no one knew what I was talking about. So even now at 60 I would never ask for it.

my parents say nugget and think I'm highfalutin for saying noo-ga.

This.

In Scotland (think it's Scottish as I've never seen it anywhere else) there's a dessert called Double Nougat which is pronounced nugget too. Weird thing is I don't think there's any actual nougat in it, just wafers and ice-cream.

5 because I’m common

Crrwassn't. But I'm Scottish and it probably sounds more like Curwussent.

Kwa Sont.

In my head I say 1 but in reality say 3 so as not to appear pretentious.

Crwussornt (sort of)