>>I'd disagree with several of those:
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>>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
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>You speak the language, I don't.

I thought you spoke EVERY language, including Basque and Sanskrit! :-)

>You're probably closer to the original, so I'd agree on the most, except where you introduce an extraneous -y in the end (as in -ey)

Do you mean as in "Dew-prey"? I meant it was pronounced as in "bird of prey", but I saw you used "eh", which is better, and changed the others to suit, but missed that one. So:

Dew-preh

OTOH,you try pronouncing the soft English "a" (as in make) without an involuntary "y" at the end. You have to trail off with a definite "h".

>or before the u (-ew) which I never heard in French. They never had the great vowel shift the way you did.

I can't see which you mean!

Actually, modeliing on your examples I missed the "d" in piedmont. I'm not sure that isn't pronounced, as I've never heard it by a frenchie.