• JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org
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      23 days ago

      I and anyone I've heard say the word says it the same as the English pronunciation in this random video I found searching for how to pronounce it. For whatever that small sample size is worth.

      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3pMOHP3Uu54

    • MovingThrowaway [none/use name]
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      22 days ago

      I've heard it with varying degrees of the R sound. There's a common shorthand "bougie" (BOO-zhee) that people often hear before learning the original term, so they'll maintain the pronunciation into BOO-zhwa.

      Sometimes the R is slightly swallowed so it sounds more like BOH-zhwa, maybe very light throat vocalization. Or people skip over it and it's buh-ZHWA. Some commit fully for BOR-zhwa.

      Universally seems to maintain (my non-native understanding of) the French "oi" and silent S.

      I have yet to hear anyone pronounce it correctly: bor-gee-oice.

  • Zerush@lemmy.ml
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    22 days ago

    *removed externally hosted image*

    https://www.theragblog.com/lamar-w-hankins-slipping-creationism-into-texas-textbooks/