I'd disagree with several of those:
Camus - Cammewss ("ew" being forming the lips to say "o" but trying to say "ee"). Normally a terminal "s" is silent but French has its exceptions like English does.
Debut - duh-bew ("uh" being the "nothing" vowel)
Design - Deh-zeenyuh ("eh" as in "heh!")
Dupree - Dew-prey
Peugeot - Puh-zho
piedmont - pih-yeh-mohn ("ohn" as in nasal "on", the "n" practically disappearing, but no "t" pronounced
randezvousRendezvous
Hugo - Ewgo
>>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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- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.