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My friend wants to know how you actually pronounce “fugue”. What a dumb friend, right?
It's like... "fyoog"
Don't be mean!
It's actually pronounced more like fo-GOY. Really odd word if you ask me...
Well, all this feels a bit weird to me as a european. Americans and british pronounce it as f-you-g, but it's a french loan word, in french /fyg/ (y as in the last letter in particularly). The word itself however comes from the latin fuga, and in german and a lot of other languages the word is fuga or fuge. Fuga is of course pronounced foo-gah (well, not exactly, but close enough) so...I wouldn't laugh that hard at someone mispronouncing the word in "English" if I were them is my point I guess.
I could imagine somebody thinking of the word "segue" and thinking "Ah, so 'fugue' must be pronounced fug-way."
Yup, those 15th century typesetters fucked up the language.
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Oh, fuck. I just had one of those, 'Duh!' moments.
Yes, a thousand times yes. I would much rather people pronounce it pretty than follow the English "language"