• Zwuzelmaus@feddit.orgEnglish
    15·
    20 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!

    • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      20 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

      • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.orgEnglish
        1·
        19 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.