How else would you pronounce it? Is there a state between being aware of croissants and knowing how the word is pronounced where the accepted pronunciation is “kroy-sent” or something?
If you are speaking English the correct pronunciation is different than if you are speaking French.
Similar to Paris, information, service, raisin, journal, and many, many other words that are used in both languages.
The English word croissant is pronounced something like krə-sänt, though I'm sure there's plenty of regional variation.
US would say something like Criss-ant, UK would say something like Criss-ont
My family in the Pacific Northwest settled on Crah-saunt (both ah and au being long A's, like in raw)
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.)
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')
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.
Oh how cool, thank you!
You’re welcome!
bonjernuh
Where I live (Canada, not Quebec) we mostly either do a mocking pronunciation similar to the OP or “cruh-SONT” if we’re pronouncing it normally.
In American English, its usually something like cruh-saunt (including the t)
"Cruzzant" out in regional Australia
Big ol cruzzi
kroissantti🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮
KROIssanttti
Crescent roll
CrawSahnt is how I would transliterate the American pronunciation. With the emphasis on the second syllable. I would not usually order one by saying Kwasahn.
I do order the chocolate ones by asking for pan chocolat, though. Pain Chocolate!
Krussant
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I only eat croissant from the supermarket. The only way I'm ordering one from a real place is if I pretend im deaf, point at what I want and then hand them money.
Pronounce it right? Pretentious twat. Pronounce it wrong? What a moron.
Guess I'm eating donuts again.
That's why I don't interact with people. No matter what your say or do, or how you say or do it, they'll judge you for it.
In my mid-twenties I decided to stop giving a fuck. People only judged me harder until I was forced to acknowledge their judgement and comply with their scripted behavioral norms, and then they judged me for that too.
I got tired of it, so lately I don't go anywhere there's people. I need something, I order it. Groceries delivered. The shut-in life is the life for me.
Where the hell did the "Rrrrrr" go? That's the key!
This reminds me of when I worked in a café years ago. We had this smug woman that would try to correct our pronunciation of French words but say them wrong herself. Croissant for her was "quasant". Cafe au lait was "Caf ah light". She would do that until we hired a Quebecois student from the local college who responded to her corrections with fluent French.
El fronsch!
Cheese du fromunch
Franz Hose
as a yuropean: how else do you pronounce it?
Croissant
Am French, can confirm this is the right way to pronounce it.
How can english-speaking people say "CRUcifix" or "CREscent" but can't say "CROAsan" ? (the final 't' of "croissant" is mute. So is the final "t" in "Bon appétit")
Totally different R sound in English crucifix and French croissant.
It's still better than "Qwasant"
God yes. Especially with an accent that makes the -ant into two syllables.
shudders
even the french will often ellide the ⟨ʁ⟩ to ⟨ʁ̞⟩ or even [χ], [ʀ], or [r]. Granted none of those are lip-rounded, but I wouldn't give a Japanese speaker a hard time over /L/ pronunciation either.
I agree. Depending on your first language, it can be hard to learn how to make specific sounds in another.
When you grew up in suburban North Carolina and your high school French teacher was a southern belle and self-proclaimed "chauvinist piglet" so to this very day you perley vew freyansay.
For those who dont understand the difference, a lot of english speaking people say it as if you had the cra part from lucrative and then an s sound and after that the word ant. So it sounds like this cra-s-ant(not totally but its hard to describe in a way that someone without ipa knowledge would understand). While the actual french pronounciation is like(once again quite hard to describe) kwah-sah(the sah is kinda like when you pronounce balsa) and the important part is that theres a release of air from the nostrils when pronouncing the sah part, almost like if the a and an n merged. This is often written with a tilda(~) written on top of the vowel(ã in this case) which literally comes from and n that was shoved on top of the preceeding vowel.
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This picture is giving my an aneurysm. The cat looks like it's walking toward me and to the left, the wall is on is going away to the left, and the tower is again going to opposite.
And the wall looks to narrow to stand on
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