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Originally posted by Cletus Miller
Oh-MAZH is fake intellectual bullshit (perhaps used ironically by some? str8?). It is not standard american english, see (or listen) http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/homage , which gives the ha-mij pronunciation 2d billing. I don't like the hard h either, but it's better than blatantly mispronouncing a word in a misguided effort to sound smart.
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I understand what you are saying, but what I don't understand is why we think it is pretentious when someone pronounces a french word the way it is supposed to be pronounced in french (leaving aside how people feel about the french in general).
I get confused by the Americanization of french words because in Canada sometimes we pronounce them more closely to the french. For example, I pronounce "foyer" as "foyay" because that is how I learned the word (in English) and people here actually say foyerrr. It sounds funny.
