The point of using a simple respelling is to show it is not pronounced "Fran Kice". Anything better than that is an improvement. "say" and "seh" sound pretty m

The point of using a simple respelling is to show it is not pronounced "Fran Kice". Anything better than that is an improvement. "say" and "seh" sound pretty much the same to me, but I'm not a monolingual English speaker, I grew up in Germany and the US, and I might also mix up things. I find the first syllable harder to describe, since there is no way to note these nasal sounds in English (actually, I think they should be called anti-nasal, since no air goes through the nose when I say it, but I disgress). But I think in general, some basics of French pronunciation are known to most English speakers, so using a French word is a bad example.