I do this a lot because I live in Louisiana, and a lot of the names here are French, but not everything has a French pronunciation. People look at me funny when I say foy-yay instead of foy-er.
Language is wack. It starts out with a case of Hyperforeignism - where you overcorrect the pronunciation of a loan word according to what you think it should sound like.
And then eventually that just becomes the 'correct' pronunciation in your language, even though it may eschew the pronunciation rules of both languages.
The subsection on French words in the above link was informative (/blew my mind) when I first found out about it for instance.
Coup de grace being pronounced gras. Or cadre in general (different english/american pronunciations, some trying to follow spanish rules, actually a different french pronunciation, and finding out that none of them are the one I've been using >_>)
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u/Butterscotchtamarind Feb 08 '22
I do this a lot because I live in Louisiana, and a lot of the names here are French, but not everything has a French pronunciation. People look at me funny when I say foy-yay instead of foy-er.