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[-] [email protected] 146 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Remember, small impressionable children, oligarchy and rigged market capitalism is the only way, everything else is evil and anti-freedom, and remember to compete against your fellow Americans to try to get more than them!

For our next lesson, critical thinking and reasoning! Just kidding, we don't do that here. It doesn't help to make you better laborers.

And now onto history, open your textbooks to page 33:

[-] [email protected] 69 points 2 weeks ago

Damn that picture is pissing me off lol

[-] [email protected] 52 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Imagine what Native Americans must think of such depictions.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago

Well if they wanted to tell their side of the story, they should've won.

Not our fault they didn't invent guns or a bunch of diseases by domesticating livestock in population centers!

[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago

I think it pisses them off too

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

For First Thanksgiving?

Most of that is believed to have happened or is so cloaked in mythos that any version is likely to be true if you're talking the American version.

Source, native. The women being there is the thing that's least likely to be true.

Nearly all of what historians have learned about one of the first Thanksgiving comes from a single eyewitness report: a letter written in December 1621 by Edward Winslow, one of the 100 or so people who sailed from England aboard the Mayflower in 1620 and founded Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. William Bradford, Plymouth’s governor in 1621, wrote briefly of the event in Of Plymouth Plantation, his history of the colony, but that was more than 20 years after the feast itself.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving

https://www.history.com/news/first-thanksgiving-colonists-native-americans-men

[-] [email protected] 56 points 3 weeks ago

I'm interested in how Americans pronouncebourgeois.

[-] [email protected] 66 points 2 weeks ago

as long as the French get offended by the pronunciation, then it's pronounced correctly in American

[-] [email protected] 48 points 3 weeks ago

We just say bourgeois

[-] [email protected] 47 points 3 weeks ago

Burgers

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

Boogers please. We ain't no uppity frogs.

[-] [email protected] 44 points 3 weeks ago

"job creators"

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I'm actually something of a job creator myself. Last week at the grocery store I didn't return my cart to the coral. They had to pay someone to go out and bring it in!

[-] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago

I personally pronounce it fahrenheit

[-] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

Boo shwa zee

[-] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago

I pronounce it bore-zhwah. Is that wrong?

[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

Feel like that's as correct as we can get, as Americans.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

French pronounce the "ou" as is "tour". But you do you.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Tour as in tu- er or tore? I've heard it pronounced both ways here in the states

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Whoa what? I've never heard anyone pronounce tour as tu-er. At that point you might as well slap an umlaut on that bad boy

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Bore rhymes with tour.. no?

[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

Bore rhymes with tore. Tour is closer to sewer

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

In most American dialects and some British dialects, "bore" and "tour" rhyme (called the "pour-poor merger"). But in some dialects it may rhyme with "sewer"/"two-er" or have the same sound as in "blue" or even as in "were".

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

A more aggressively American pronunciation would be bore-ge-oh-is.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

Borzshwah

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

'Boojz wah', or if I'm feeling silly bourguignon. But I'd probably be more likely to use 'middle class' instead of the French.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Different ways, I usually say boo-jwah, bur-jwah is also one I've heard though.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Bourxjeauxaseaux

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

I and anyone I've heard say the word says it the same as the English pronunciation in this random video I found searching for how to pronounce it. For whatever that small sample size is worth.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3pMOHP3Uu54

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I've heard it with varying degrees of the R sound. There's a common shorthand "bougie" (BOO-zhee) that people often hear before learning the original term, so they'll maintain the pronunciation into BOO-zhwa.

Sometimes the R is slightly swallowed so it sounds more like BOH-zhwa, maybe very light throat vocalization. Or people skip over it and it's buh-ZHWA. Some commit fully for BOR-zhwa.

Universally seems to maintain (my non-native understanding of) the French "oi" and silent S.

I have yet to hear anyone pronounce it correctly: bor-gee-oice.

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago

Me when the science teacher says the earth is round /s