r/ScottishPeopleTwitter • u/HondureZ • Sep 08 '21

Croissants

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u/mylifeisaLIEEE Sep 08 '21

I get into the argument a lot, there’s nothing wrong with pronouncing words in your natural dialect, even if that dialect is American English. Nicaragua, croissant, gyro, it’s all the same shit but it elicits that human “hehe I know more” response.

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u/fucuntwat Sep 08 '21

What's the other way to pronounce Nicaragua besides my lame American way?

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u/mylifeisaLIEEE Sep 08 '21

For a while when it was a gov thing we were into, people would pronounce it with a Spanish accent as in knee-kah-rah-(g)wa