Franglais

Rankin, Robert L rankin at ku.edu
Fri Jun 9 04:27:19 UTC 2006


> The most egregious example of this is the phrase 'Bolshoi Ballet'. I read an
article a long time ago that certain American theatergoers were pronouncing
'Bolshoi' as 'Bol-SHWAH', on the model of French. Argh.

Ah, the bourgeoy pronunciation.



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