Breakfast
November 3rd, 2006
Little Brittain
Sometimes when I am out of breakfast yoghurt I have to visit the baker in Croydon. What pleasure, what joy.
Not because of the enormous amount of cakes they have (ok, I admit I was weak).
But because of the way the woman behind the counter pronounces “croissant”.
French talking English is good. English talking French is just cakey.
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Hey man, there’s more than one baker in Croydon.
OK, South Croydon (South End) then.
Ik zal ook eens luisteren hoe onze bakkersvrouw uit Oostzaan dat uitspreekt.
(Wannneer je bij haar gebakjes bestelt, informeert ze altijd even waar het voor is.) :-)
In Oostzaan it is probably pronounced with a singing intonation (’zangerig’) where the ‘o’ and ‘i’ rhyme in Dutch with ‘mooi’. The ’sant’ has a clear ‘t’.
I just have to listen to the internal voice of how my grandparents would have said it. Ah, it brings back memories because the last grandparent died more than 20 years ago.