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Originally Posted by evman150
It's actually neither.
Copp-i-chee-no? LOL. You say all those french words with an "ah" sound? voh-cob-you-lerr? Uhhh...no.
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You're right, its frahn-say (which is still a rough phoenetic spelling)... the s was a typo. Aside from that, you're totally offbase.
Cappuccino is definitely pronounced with an ah sound. "Caw-poo-chee-no".. its really not that hard to comprehend. I sincerely hope you're not one of those people that pronounce espresso as "expresso" and call Italians "Eye-talians".
I don't even know why you're arguing this... the romance languages pronounce the letter A like "ah", and in Italian, I's sound like e's and e's sound more like hard i's.
Think french words like chat, pamplemousse, l'orange, francophone. There are exceptions, like "maison" but that's because the rules change because of the letters around it. Much like in english... but the letter A is pronounced "eyy" in english, and that is the sound it typically has unless there's conventions that change its pronounciation to a latin "ah" sound or something else.
Foreign words are supposed to be pronounced with foreign language rules, unless they are specifically anglicized words/names/terms, like Venice or Naples or Germany or Spain. That's part of why english is just a hard language to learn, its a muddled combination of latin and germanic roots.