We just say croissant.
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darklamer@feddit.org 10 hours ago Not that I would ever claim to know every French pastry, but I’m reasonably certain that there’s nothing in all of France or in the French language named ‘cwah-sont’.
Skunk@jlai.lu 9 hours ago
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 8 hours ago
“Can I have one of those Croy Sunts please?”
“What? I don’t know what a Quasson is”
BCsven@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
Assuming no sarcasm, Its a spelling attempt at the French pronuncitation of croissant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnAoRcnY4xs
That makes zero sense.
The examples of English pronounciations she gives there are truly bizarre.
pmk@piefed.ca 4 hours ago
But the french “r” is not like an english “w”?