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What's annoying about this is to make the joke work you have to mangle the pronunciation of "crepes". It's a French word and it rhymes with "step". I don't know how you can get an "ay" sound out of a word containing only "e" as a vowel.
- In English crepes rhymes with shapes. Sorry, we do mangle words we ~~steal~~ adopt
  
  No, in some very backwards dialects it might, but they should be ashamed of how they mispronounce it.
  
  Interesting that your pronunciation is listed as predominantly US, but Larson lives and lived in Washington state and pronounces it the way I and presumably the rest of the Commonwealth do
  Neither of us can say the other is mispronouncing the word, it is said both ways
  How did we get that way of saying it? The French version of the word has a circumflex over the e (crêpe) I'm not up on French pronunciation but I suppose that influenced how it was pronounced in English
  Edit to add: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cr%C3%AApe#French
  The French pronunciation
  
  I and presumably the rest of the Commonwealth
  Nope!
  The French version of the word has a circumflex over the e (crêpe)
  Which makes it sound like the "e" in crept or crepuscular. Both of which, unsurprisingly, sound exactly like the way the e in "crepe" is supposed to be pronounced.
  Now, I could see someone getting confused by the spelling, and assuming the weird English rule about silent "e"s applies, meaning it should be pronounced "creep". But, that's not the mistake people are making, for some reason they're saying "crayp", which is just stupid.
  
  Visit the link I linked, listen to the samples of French speakers from different regions saying the word
  
  I did, and all but the very heavily accented Quebecois one say it the way it should be said, similar to crept.
  
  Well here's the English word: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crepe#English
  Unfortunately you'll have to read the IPA to get the British pronunciation, as the only recorded version is the US pronunciation.
  
  Yes, but what we want is the correct pronunciation, so for that you have to go see the French version.
  
  "Correct" is how it's pronounced in your area. For example, Nissan:
  UK: ni (as in nip) san (a as in apple)
  US: knee-sahn (ah as in "aha"); much closer to the original Japanese
  Each is correct in the given region.
  Just because a word is borrowed doesn't mean it needs to be pronounced the same.
  
  Nah, the US one is more correct because it's much closer to the original Japanese.

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