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It's in any case unlikely for a French speaker to mispronounce "happiness" as "a penis".
by seszett 4y ago
It's in any case unlikely for a French speaker to mispronounce "happiness" as "a penis".
- dissent 4y agohappiness => 'appinesss => a penis
- danuker 4y agoIn French, the initial 'h' is mute. Here is "hospital" in French as an example. See the "Pronunciation" section. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/h%C3%B4pital https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/h%C3%B4pital So the occurrence is quite possible.
- seszett 4y agoWell, I'm actually a French speaker and what makes me say that is the "a" in happiness that is IMO never going to be pronounced by a French speaker the same way as the "a" in "a penis". The "e" might get pronounced as the "I" in penis by a good enough English speaker, but probably not by a bad English speaker. I also believe that stress would be totally different, put only on the "a" by a French speaker.
- ehnto 4y agoEven some English speakers omit the H, 'appiness. Give it a little inflection and you've got yourself a penis. I did watch a French burlesque show that had a comedy bit based in on this very mispronunciation, but that may well have been contrived.