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?
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.)
“Cruzzant” out in regional Australia
Big ol cruzzi
In American English, its usually something like cruh-saunt (including the t)
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KROIssanttti
Krussant
Crows Aunt
The have a whole thing about doing their own pronunciations because using the original one from the language they are borrowing from is apparently either pretentious or racist depending on how superior they feel to the region the word originates from.
Crescent roll
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.
as a yuropean: how else do you pronounce it?
Croissant
Am French, can confirm this is the right way to pronounce it.
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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.
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
Franz Hose
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
Cats don’t care about your feelings.
This true
