Comments on: Tourtières & Cretons http://moof.blogsplot.net/2005/12/22/tourtieres-cretons/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:13:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Wm H http://moof.blogsplot.net/2005/12/22/tourtieres-cretons/#comment-66 Wm H Sat, 24 Dec 2005 14:43:43 +0000 http://moof.blogsplot.net/?p=55#comment-66 Dang and I don't eat pork........but that won't stop me from drooling at the photo. Moof, May you and yours have a wonder Christmas. Dang and I don’t eat pork……..but that won’t stop me from drooling at the photo. Moof, May you and yours have a wonder Christmas.

]]> By: Moof http://moof.blogsplot.net/2005/12/22/tourtieres-cretons/#comment-63 Moof Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:56:22 +0000 http://moof.blogsplot.net/?p=55#comment-63 Hey T.J.! Glad to see that you have an internet connection at your folks! :) Cretons is pronounced: creh - ton ... with the "on" part sounding like the "on" in the word ONUS, however, you have to stop short of actually <i>saying</i> the n. Tourtiere is pronounced: tour-tee-aire. French is horrible to try to pronounce by written example for an Anglophone. There are sounds which just aren't represented in English ... like that "there, but not there" nasal twang that stands in for the letter N at the end of a word. Hey T.J.!

Glad to see that you have an internet connection at your folks! :)

Cretons is pronounced: creh - ton … with the “on” part sounding like the “on” in the word ONUS, however, you have to stop short of actually saying the n.

Tourtiere is pronounced: tour-tee-aire.

French is horrible to try to pronounce by written example for an Anglophone. There are sounds which just aren’t represented in English … like that “there, but not there” nasal twang that stands in for the letter N at the end of a word.

]]> By: It's me, T.J. http://moof.blogsplot.net/2005/12/22/tourtieres-cretons/#comment-62 It's me, T.J. Fri, 23 Dec 2005 06:13:10 +0000 http://moof.blogsplot.net/?p=55#comment-62 Wow! I have never heard of this before. My ancestors were from France. They were Hugeunots, traced back to Louis XIV. But I am 1/8 German and 1/8 Comanche and the rest, well... who really knows. My point is that being a good "German" I really love pork. But having never been around French people, it looks like I am really missing out on something here! BTW... How do you pronounce those words? later... Wow! I have never heard of this before.

My ancestors were from France. They were Hugeunots, traced back to Louis XIV.

But I am 1/8 German and 1/8 Comanche and the rest, well… who really knows.

My point is that being a good “German” I really love pork. But having never been around French people, it looks like I am really missing out on something here!

BTW… How do you pronounce those words?

later…

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