food vocabulary rhetorical question (but real answers are fine) 

why do 'muricans say "bool-yon" when they read "bouillon"? the "i" is before the "l"s.

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food vocabulary rhetorical question (but real answers are fine) 

@packbat so in my pronunciation, if i try to casually say it but include the "i" into it - i still have that "y" sound after the "l"s. i think perhaps this is a bit like the pronunciation of "mignon" where the "y" sound comes invisibly from. french i guess

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re: food vocabulary rhetorical question (but real answers are fine) 

@MindmeshLink @packbat in several Romance languages gn is actually a common way to write /ɲ/, which is kind of like a palatalized /n/ that naturally causes a sort of /j/ as you leave it

it's particularly common in French (mignon, champignon, the name Agnès) and Italian (gnocchi, the Italian form of the same name, Agnese)
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