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Other people pronouncing “croissant” as “quasson”:
Image of a French guy holding baguettes and wine
Me when I say “Turrón”:
Ena - a humanoid being that has a yellow, smooth left side and blue, low-poly right side - dancing on the foreground, with 4 copies of cat-person in the background copying their moves mirrored vertically .
Field of sunflowers in the background.
Bottom image source:
ENA - Temptation Stairway by Joel G
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juBv2XWnwt8&t=505
French ‘r’ doesn’t sound like ‘w’
It sure doesn’t. When people pronounce it like that, they’re imitating a segment from a kids’ show (forget whether it was Dexter’s Lab or Jimmy Neutron)
In the word ‘croissant’ it sounds a lot more like English W than English R (as well as very different from R in other French words).
No it doesn’t. The ‘r’ in croissant is a very pronounced ‘r’ sound. It is just English speakers pronouncing it wrong by conflating it with the following ‘oi’ sound, who thinks it resembles a ‘w’ more.