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?
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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.
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.
US would say something like Criss-ant, UK would say something like Criss-ont
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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.
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Me: Le crescent roll.
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.