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By IPA standards, it's technically "kʁwasɑ̃".
While closer than "krəˈsɑːnt", "quâssòń" isn't fooling any French person.
- As a frenchman, if find "quâssòn" really cute, like someone trying their best to pronounce it correctly and falling just a bit short. I also love the sound of it, for some reason it sounds kinda stylish to me
I'm curious now if there are English words (American or the fancy kind) that non-native speakers commonly over-pronounce when goofing around in a similar way.
- "Squirrel" for me. I can either pronounce it with a huge french accent or with a huge bad American accent. No in-between.
  
  I'm really struggling to imagine 'squirrel' said with a French accent, what happens to that 'rr' sound?
  
  Oh that's a good one, I can totally hear it in my head!
- I can't remember where I saw it but there was a Polish guy who could not say "earlier". He kept saying it like "air lee air" and eventually gave up and said "before" with almost no accent.
- try saying "lamb" as a non-native without sounding like you're saying "lem"
- Pretty sure "hamburger" and "Texas" are a couple
- that non-native speakers commonly over-pronounce when goofing around in a similar way.
  Aluminum? Or is that more of a 'regional differences' thang?
  
  If I were a Brit I would definitely make it a point to bust out my worst American accent and call it Alumin(no i)um whenever possible.
- Americans basically did this with the English phrase 'each to their own', by saying 'to each their own' just to sound fancier. Then it caught on and now you all say it this way.
How else would you pronounce it? Croy-sant?
- I usually say croissant.
  But I'm french so what do I know?
- Cross-ont
- "See Roy? SS ant."
- I have heard it range into 'Curse-Ant'.
- The typical American pronunciation is "cruhsahnt", with the emphasis placed on the second syllable.

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