To refuse to buy croissants any more because my children can't pronounce the word?

[MattDillonsPants]

They USED to say it correctly but since we moved to South Australia, they've been calling them "Cross-onts" like the locals.

I can't BEAR it!

They still have English accents...it's not a case of them trying to fit in because there are no other local colloquialisms or pronunciations they've picked up. I know it wouldn't bother many people but it bothers ME!

[GrinAndTonic]

Bloody South Australians thinking they are all fancy.

[SenecaFalls]

Furious I'm not sure. I don't like pain au chocolat so I have never ordered one. I imagine most Americans would say chocolate croissant, even though they are not crescent-shaped. I think the problem may lie in having to give "chocolate" a French pronunciation.

[screechingcorella]

We South Australians are correct. 'Tis the French who are wrong.

[AGnu]

I know someone who says "flammin-GO" for flamingo. Also "laz-an-yay" lasagne, "brocco-lye", payshio patio... I could write an entire dictionary with their unusual pronunciations!

[FuriousFate]

Seneca - have you ever tried to order a pain au chocolat in Starbucks? (I also live in the US). After about five attempts, I gave up and asked for a chocolate croissant. Surely everyone knows them as pain au chocolat primarily though?!

[SenecaFalls]

I use the Latin American pronunciation of chorizo, cho-REE-so.

I'm American; I've studied French so I know how to say croissant, but I'd be laughed out of Starbucks if I said it that way. I don't pronounce the "t" though.

[PeaceLoveAndJaffaCakes]

Also have heard people pronounce chenille as chanel. No.

[PeaceLoveAndJaffaCakes]

I grew up calling them cwAh-son, but decided that was wanky so started saying cruh-sOnt at some point during the last five years. What have I become

It is noo-gar, though.

[MattDillonsPants]

And for eg "Hello, could you direct me to your Manchester please?"

and "Massive sale on all Manchester today!

Odd isn't it? But it's been a "thing" for more than a hundred years so not that weird for them I suppose.

[MattDillonsPants]

Morris they certainly DO refer to sheets etc as Manchester!

www.harrisscarfe.com.au/bed%2cbath-%26-home-decor/manchester-%26-bed-linen/c/manchester-bed-linen

www.manchesterandmore.com/

[oldlaundbooth]

Oh the angst.

[DropYourSword]

Yes they do MorrisZapp. An example, the signs in our supermarkets (you know, tea, coffee biscuits, oils and vinegar etc) clearly shows that there's a 'Manchester' section.

[merrymouse]

Unless you are using a proper French accent with a proper r (which isn't a 'w') you aren't going to be pronouncing croissant 'correctly'. On the other hand if you aren't French and you are speaking English and you launch into a full on French accent every time you use a commonly used French word, you are going to sound pretentious.

[MorrisZapp]

And I say crass-on.

Am Scottish.

[MorrisZapp]

Can I just confirm that people in Australia refer to sheets as 'Manchester'?

Can a local give me a sentence because I have no idea how that works.

[Gubbins]

I didn't realise pronouncing things correctly made me a pretentious wanker. Good to know.

And 'nuggat'? Really? I have never heard anyone say that apart from as a joke. Is it a North/south thing?

[DontBuyANewMumCashmere]

I never remember the correct way to say latte so often overthink it and end up saying it loads of different ways.
I think it's 'la-tay. Is this right?

I say cho-'ree-zo, 'cwah-sahn (like the french pronunciation), 'noo-gar (didn't know anyone said nugget!)
Basically I'm that annoying person who tries to say everything correctly pretentiously

But I don't do it for place names. Hate it when my DM does it for places.

[SanityClause]

I know a Lithuanian woman who works with mainly Irish people. It's funny to hear her say "so" at the end of a sentence, in the Irish way.

[TheKingSits]

I don't mind most of these pronunciations but the day I am up in court for my murdering my in-laws my defence will be that they pronounce restaurant 'rest-rong' like they are fucking Parisians. They are in Lanarkshire FFS.

[MyBreadIsEggy]

I'm guilty of all the linguistic sins mentioned on this thread
I say:

Cross-on
Lartay
Riz-otto
Cher-eet-zo
Broo-shetta
Parm-a-san

And I'm not even a native English speaker so I don't have that excuse....I blame my husband. I learned a lot of English words and ways of saying fleeing words in his accent

[BendydickCuminsnatch]

My friend says 'crustle', because the kids in her family couldn't say it properly when they were little. Can say it now, just choose not to

[BendydickCuminsnatch]

I'm a 'kwass-on', personally. Love how Americans say it - 'kruh-SONT'

[merrymouse]

And by incorrectly, I mean that 'kwasson' with an English accent is still an English approximation of the word.

[Jade1212]

I think saying it 'correctly' sounds a bit pretentious and it really wouldn't fit my accent, so I wouldn't be too annoyed at your kids for saying it how their friends say it, maybe they feel weird saying it differently?

[WorraLiberty]

My friend's French kids moved to Southern Ireland when they were 8 and 10 years old.

They're 22 and 24 now and their accents and strangely endearing