Anyone who pronounced Jacques as Jack just isn't trying.


>>I think that one is just ignorance. I would bet 99% of those who cheer, cheer for old Notre Dame have no idea what a corruption their pronunciation is of the correct one.
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>Here's my regular list of mispronounced French:
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>French		American	should be, IMO
>Barbour		barber		barboor
>Bastille	basteel		bastiy
>Braille		brejl		bruy
>boulevard	boolevard	boolevar
>bulletin	bewlletin	bill-ten
>camus		kamu		kamee
>champagne	shempayne	shum-punny  (a "ny" as in "new" but not as "noo")
>cognac		koun-jek	kony-uck (same "ny" sound)
>debut		daybew		debee
>dépôt		deepoe		dehpoh
>design		deezine		dehzehn
>Duchamp		dew-champ	di-shun
>Dupree		dew-pree	di-prey
>Foucault	foo-colt	fou-coe
>Guy		ghye		ghi
>Hugo		hew-goe		eegoh
>Jacques		jack		zhak
>Joseph		joe-seph	zhozef
>Madeleine	medelin		mahdlehn
>Napoleon	nep-ow-lee-un	nah-poh-leh-on
>niche		nitch		neesh
>Peugeot		poozhaw		pehzhaw
>Picard		pikard		pikar
>piedmont	pidmont		pih-yeh-mont
>Poincaré	ponkare		poh-en-kare
>randezvous	ran-day-view	rahn-deh-voo
>renault		renolt		reh-noh
>Richelieu	ritch-lee-er	rish-elly-eh (ly analogue to ny but with l)
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