Beauxbatons

[bostonlsu81]

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From: bostonlsu81
Subject: Re: Beauxbatons
Reply To: [Yahoo! #3792] Beauxbatons
Date: 7/11/00 1:18 pm  (ET)

New member here - saw this club listed in the HP newsgroup last night
by a long-term member.

I'm not a french speaker, per se, but did grow up in Louisiana and was
exposed to quite a few words of French origin. The problem is, all the
words were pronounced with the Cajun dialect, which I've heard is quite
different from true french. Anyway, the pronunciation that popped into
my head when I saw that name was "bo buh-tawn". Judging from some of the
ways I heard the various Cajun names mangled by visitors, though, I can
imagine that a lot of people are thinking "box-bat-tons" instead. :0}