SC - Advice from Cariadoc

Christine A Seelye-King mermayde at juno.com
Mon Jan 17 22:26:03 PST 2000


- --- Philip & Susan Troy <troy at asan.com> wrote:

> Actually I wonder what they call croissants in >
Hoboken? It's a word I can barely
> form with my own
> mouth, and my New York accent is not especially
> pronounced, except when
> I put it on for tourists. I'm told I have what's
> known as a Catholic
> School accent.

While he is not from Hoboken, I have a friend who has
recently migrated from "Joizy" and he calls them
"Croy-sants" with the second syllable accented and
rhymes with the word "pants".

Huette 
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