• Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org
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    5 days ago

    Great. Very unpopular.

    Take my upvote, and now let me try it:

    Joule is a French name, and French is eek, and Americans never know how to pronounce it anyway. So it must be avoided!

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      4 days ago

      Americans never know how to pronounce it anyway

      Do you have an example of an American mispronouncing joule or is that just a gut feeling

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        4 days ago

        It’s the other way round: all French words are your examples. Each time when I have heard a French word spoken by an American, they did it in a very unexpected way, as if it were not French at all.