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Re:Parisian Accent in 1912 by GirkovArpa on Thursday January 14, 2021 @08:26PM (#25785724)
push, p/eu/sh?

long, l/on/ng, l/an/ng?

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Re:Parisian Accent in 1912 by kergonath on Saturday January 16, 2021 @12:31PM (#25803708)
Not quite, /eu/ in French is deeper, closer to /ö/ in German, I really can’t think of an English word with the same sound.

The /on/ nasal vowel is also approximated in “don’t” in some English accent, but again often imperfectly. In French, you don’t hear the n at all, whereas it is most often noticeable in “long”. AFAICT, the closest is /ão/ in Portuguese.

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