• Konstant@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    I don’t know, man. I watch a Parisian streamer ocasionally and he says Pah-ree all the time.

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      18 hours ago

      Yup that’s what I said 😎

      Without joking, yes the S is silent so if we try to think with English language accent it could be written Pah-ree. Pah without pronouncing the H, more like how you say papa.

      And RI is, well yeah, ree. But with a French R, the one that is difficult to master as this sound does not exist in English.

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        16 hours ago

        The s being silent is one thing but I find English speakers mostly struggle with getting the vowels and combinations anywhere close, even here I read this “pah” and I’m like “no way even 1/10th of them get that A right”, or indeed the “ri”.