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Originally Posted by Andy6
That's because that's the correct pronunciation in English. We don't say "Frahhnce" either. Nor, for that matter, do Frenchmen say "London" in a clipped Oxbridge way, right in the middle of a French sentence referring to the British capital. This would all be quite silly (and would probably be political in motivation, much as progressive friends of my generation used to make a big show of pronouncing "Nicaragua" in what they imagined to be the rather melodramatic tone of a native Spanish speaker -- in solidarity with the Sandinistas or whatever the cause du jour was.)
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Yeah but... the correct English pronunciation seems to be kuh-bec not kwuh-bec. That's the way all Canadian and Quebec government officials from the GG and PM on down seem to say it in English.
And in case anybody was afraid of such things, it's not "pandering" to Quebec or francophones, as it's not the same as the French pronunciation at all.
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