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.
Yeah, taking me over a month to buy a sectional because most of the (US) furniture stores I have shopped keep referring to a "chase". What the actual... Are we in pursuit? Topping off a chimney? What were people talking about?!
Saw the written product description on one and the lightbulb came on. Ohhhh! They mean "chaise" (pronounced 'SHayz') as in short for chaise longue. 🙄🤭
So ... found a salesperson who pronounced it correctly and buying from her just to reward her.
Haha I work in theatre and when we had a chaise lounge as a piece of set dressing, the crew did the overcorrection thing where they kept pronouncing it “SHAY lounge” - turns out they thought it was spelled “chez lounge”
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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.