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Make_the_music_stop

I love to purposefully mispronounce French words, but you need to do it around the right people, otherwise they act like its a huge fox pass.


saltinstiens_monster

Sock ray blue!


kandaq

Too lay joule


obijon298

Touch E.


FeedMeDarkness

Sest lass vye


favgameisundertale

Soo la voo


s09q3fjsoer-q3

So funny


AsideMaleficent6682

Peace day resistance


sevenonsiz

Yup… I Just tried spelling it also. You got many more letters correct. If only closed captions had been around in the 60s…


City_Standard

Lmao sock ray blue


s09q3fjsoer-q3

So funny


Muffstic

Is that similar to fox fur? Edit: My sister was telling everyone her jacket was made out of fox fur 🤣


Dolfan1963

From a real genuine faux fox I’m sure…


PM_ME_YOUR_NUDESEXTS

A huge fox paw if it wasn't.


crupesane

More like fox fox fur


Bohbo

Nice work


NoSweat_PrinceAndrew

My Wii


Ok-Network-1491

Did you mean 05 Wii?


ChaseShiny

I'm pretty sure they meant, "May we?"


Bohbo

Mais Oui what?


ChaseShiny

Danse, seal voo play


TurbulentWeb1941

Murky bucket, Silva plate


RabbitsAteMySnowpeas

Call the Mayor!


dontshoot9

Seal too play


netbuggy

2nd door on the left.


Torggil

Entre


Disastrous_Onion_411

For years My father has pronounced it “Oar dewvers” (in a very redneck fashion) and laughs every single time.


nandocat4ever

In my family, it was always “whore’s ovaries.” Classy, huh?


Gramage

Horse Doovers for me lmao


iordseyton

One of my friends asked me if it was safe to eat shark cooter. Hed started dating a rich girl, and apparently her parents 'were into that kind of thing'


Graterof2evils

Maybe not on the first date.


Disastrous_Onion_411

That’s r/whitetrashclassy material.


HeathersZen

Sometimes you just have to ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and say “sest lah vie”


Grumpyfrog23

Say Lobby


klyzklyz

Very good. Murky buckets!


HatfieldCW

Gosh.


[deleted]

Dude....I once said oars de vores instead of hors d'oeuvres.. not even purposefully


joeuser0123

We used to say french pimps call it Whors d’oveurs


PANobes

Or Whores Divorce... I also used to say Horse Ovaries


slava_bogy

Horse Dee or Vees


scarletoharlan1976

Isnt it?


whoooocaaarreees

Mer-cy buc-kles That’s quality.


Fillmoreccp

Yep, I call them Whores Doovrays!


Evening-Tomatillo-47

I'll have you know I speak perfect French, mercy bow coop


paz9ify

I drive a coop ford ray.


MyNameIsHaines

Last night I wished my in laws good ape tits before dinner. Was not appreciated l.


darkdestiny91

Duh, you had to tell them bone apple teeth.


Twiddleypops

Enjoy your gore may food! Osteopetrosis!


Iama69robot

Mercy buckets silver plates


Gramage

Merchy Boo-koops


sproctor

I might understand that, but Jen says pass.


JetScreamerBaby

Horse doovers


Horse_Devours

Close


scarletoharlan1976

However you say it lay bone taps routette.


bliksempie

Fox pass. Lmao.


UpperMacungie

“Horse divers”


aurthurallan

There's a street near hot springs ar called fox pass and it made me laugh every time i saw it.


Horse_Devours

***YOU RANG???***


IllustratorPuzzled93

Horse doobers


Torggil

Orderbs


dontshoot9

Parler = parlay but don’t tell 🇺🇸


TooShiftyForYou

The other day I ran into my buddy from France at the lake. He was very proud of his collection of rowboats and was eager to show them off. Pointing to the boats, he said, "This is Un. This is Deux. This is Trois. This is Quatre. This is Six." I replied, "That's awesome, but where's the 5th one?" - He put his head down and said, "Cinq."


Snowwolf_Bravo

Never forget Cinq, it was a truly great vassel.


speculatrix

Tried to transport too much salad dressing in Spring. The cinqo de mayo.


shaard

My family had moved back to Canada after basically growing up in the US. Us kids started learning French in school. One night my ever so clever dad asks us if they had taught us the short story about the tragedy of the three kittens who were on the Titanic. We said "no". "It's a sad story. The Titanic un deux trois quatre cinq"


madelineisle

Why are there never floods in France? Because the water’s always l’eau


Milabelle2

😂😂😂


mongreloid

My aunt always says silver plate instead of sil vous plait…


flypstyx

"Mercy Buckets" - Ted Lasso


mongreloid

Grampa always called them whores drawers!


esleydobemos

Horse's ovaries was the iteration foisted upon me.


PomegranateV2

I find one egg is un oeuf.


jepensedoucjsuis

Just told this to my wife who is a French teacher. She laughed.


Unable-Arm-448

Ha-- good one!


MinFootspace

As a french-speaking person, I really wonder how an English-speaking person would pronounce "Hors d'oeuvres"!


jaytw522

"or durvz" with the stress on "dur"


MinFootspace

Not bad, you just need to invert the r and v sounds, and the final s is silent :) So.... " or duvr" kinda sort of.


CrediblyHandsome

Brett Favre does not pronounce it like that.


MinFootspace

It would more be "Ordövr" but that might not help much. We have so many letters for so few different sounds in some of our words :D


rankinfile

Yank English just changes it to or d'rv.


DefconBacon

Horse divorce. Simple.


HatfieldCW

Horse doovers in my house.


_blackdog6_

Or whores doovers depending on company.


chattywww

Was it a marriage between 2 horses or between a house and a person?


LutherJustice

Horse's Doovers


ConsciousRoyal

That’s how my mum insists on pronouncing it


Horse_Devours

*Hmmmmmm?????*


[deleted]

Bone apple tea, my friend.


MinFootspace

Ail donte endeurstande ouate youre seilleingue :(


TotalTerrible783

Whores Dee Ovaries!!!


meeyeam

It's Hors Doeveurs, Sean Connery.


Torggil

If he really said that, wouldn't it be " Horsh Doeveursh?"


IConsumePorn

Ill devour some whores


pupi_but

Or durrvs


Unable-Arm-448

"Whore's ovaries," right?


MinFootspace

Both 's' are silent, as they should be :D


scarletoharlan1976

Not when spoken in English


AgitatedText

I had a co-worker for years who thought he was culturally superior for referring to every appetizer at any restaurant as "whores davores"


MinFootspace

Funny thing is that even though I'm French-speaking, I never use "hors d'oeuvres". Actually you won't hear it much at all unless in the more expensive restaurants.


developing-critique

Horse divorce


Stay-Thirsty

We used to pick on my father when he said good morning and it sounded like “messy buckets”. Came out as “messy boo-cuts”, but when you’re slaughtering a language, why would family show you mercy. Edit: thank you very much. Brain wasn’t working.


tutoriii

merci beaucoup is supposed to mean thank you very much not good morning? or am i getting something wrong here😂


Stay-Thirsty

You are not, I got it wrong


tjcanno

That’s actually “thank you very much “.


Stay-Thirsty

Yeah. Not sure where my head was at. Shouldn’t post before coffee


Filberrt

Ordure vv- kinda grosses me out- want t move on t ladies fingers or something


Practical-Custard-64

Ordures does mean rubbish/trash in French so that's understandable 😂


NutellaGood

Hours devours


Raddish_Crunch

Sometimes mispronounced on purpose: horse doovers. No offence intended, mon ami.


Wonderful-Pollution7

My mother used to jokingly call them "ore dee vores".


[deleted]

I've literally heard it said as "horses duvets" before.


Zane42v2

Whore derrervzz


RutCry

With a mouthful of sneering condescension.


Grumpyfrog23

I said "whores Dovers" all through my teenage years, thinking I was pronouncing it correctly.


MinFootspace

Remove the 'e' and the 's' from both words and you're not bad.


Horse_Devours

I gotchu


scarletoharlan1976

OR-Dervsd as one long word ORDERVS with accent on the der


MinFootspace

Invert the R and the V and remove the S, which is silent :>


dpark64

Whore Dee Overs! 🤣


Yrag1244

Horse Dovers


IanKorat

Horses doofers


MinFootspace

I can't unhear this xD


borazine

Imagine my *chagrin* when I hear Americans and their *penchant* for mispronouncing words of foreign origins


MinFootspace

We do the same with the words imported from English into French!


tlbs101

This joke has a certain *Je ne sais pas*. I wish I knew what that meant, but sadly I don’t.


DoggedDreamer2

I thought it was Je ne sais qua?


leformerchef

Je ne sais quoi


Stompya

This joke has a certain _je ne sais quoi_. I don’t know what, it means.


PANobes

Guy asks his French-speaking friend: "Can you tell me what 'je ne sais quoi' means?" Friend: (shrugs) "I don't know what... I can't say." Guy: "It's ok, I'll ask somebody else."


DoggedDreamer2

Ok, well I'm Italian but thx! I did study French but I'd hate to tell u how long ago that was completed!


Fatstickystick

je ne sais pas, is i dont know


TheLostSkellyton

Dammit, take my upvote. XD


speculatrix

I didn't know, asked my friends, they didn't know either.


amerkanische_Frosch

This morning, I tripped and fell right onto the bread shelf of my local French bakery. I was in a world of pain!


HatfieldCW

The doover is the most delicious part of the horse, I'm told.


TastiSqueeze

I was a precocious reader who first encountered hors d'oeuvres in a book when I was nine years old. In my mental dialogue, I pronounced it 'horse doovers'. You can guess what i thought it meant.


violentpac

I was a precious reader to


TomAto314

For years as a kid I thought rendezvous and "ron day voo" were two separate words that meant the same thing.


rrr_65

Horse divorce


DeeSnarl

“Pretentious? Moi??”


davisyoung

There’s got to be a solution for when your snooty friend says je ne sais quoi but I don’t know what. 


winthroprd

Sounds like a real amuse-douche.


TnBluesman

Our maybe just a plain douche.


demansj

Sacré bleu!


dalmetherian

Terrible.


bluecheckthis

Go to Baton Rouge for Mardi Gras


scarletoharlan1976

Lay bone taps rulet


urfavouriteredditor

Pretentious? Moi?


Xr8e

Sacker Blue


Mission_Dream_6013

You really think that is snooty.


cscottbsn

Horsey Doovers


Corvus717

Saw it on a commercial a long time ago and still use it ….. “I’ll have a glass of your best wit- tay “. “Sir do you mean white ?”


the_De_Filer

right to the beginning eh?


No_Tension_1268

we say horses dovers ( dicks)/


Aromatic_Money_3902

donkey shit for that joke


Torggil

Monge la merde


missanthropy09

This is the first joke in this sub that I’ve actually laughed at in a long while


DueRough7957

Now it's fing r r food and you have to lick other people's doovers.


randallnewton

True story (aren't they all?). The instructor was late the second week of French 101. It was a Baptist University so churchy speech and mannerisms would be well understood. While we were waiting, I decided to steal the moment. Holding an open textbook in front of my like a Bible, I solemnly approached the podium in front. "The word for today," I said with reverent, pastoral tone. Then a pause. "Aujourd'hui."


kk074

This joke definitely does amuse... amuse bouche, if you will


gdogakl

Hors d'oeuvres aren't appetizers (also known as a starter, or entree). The correct order for a four course dinner is: hors d'oeuvres; appetizers; main course; and then, dessert. Fyi the terms 'appetizer', 'starter' or 'entree' are interchangeable everywhere in the world aside from the USA (because USA, USA, USA!!!!) https://www.webstaurantstore.com/blog/2578/full-course-meal.html


unixhed

I will sleep on a pallyarse because nobbyless obligay.


Little_Miss_Missfit

I like to translate words from english to my native language (dutch) and then use those words in stead. For example: The word tired sounds a lot like the dutch slang word tirette, which means 'zipper'. So when im tired i'll say 'im zipper' in dutch. in french "egg" is "oeuf", an oeuf sounds like 'enough'. But the dutch word for egg is 'ei' so when I have eaten enough, I' say "i have an egg" but in dutch. It doesn't work with everyone


jut1972

I avoid foreign words, they just aren't my forte


52-Cutter-52

Mercy buckets moon cherry.


qsk8r

How does one use hors d'oeuvres in day to day conversation? Like, is he cracking out the sausage rolls and being like 'here's some horsey duvrees' or is he actually in fine dining on the regular?


bluecheckthis

Q:What is the soup du jour A:Oh that's the soup of the day


JayADubya

Ore-dev-ores Feel-et Mig-non Qua-sa-Dilla


PomegranateV2

Feeling a Minion. Say it in a French accent.


gregarioussparrow

I say kay-suh-dill-ah on purpose. Once, that's how i hear it after it being said once in Napoleon Dynamite. That and it drives my friends crazy and they call me the worst Mexican ever (am half Mexican)


Terrible_Knowledge_1

A lady I knew called them horses doofers


[deleted]

Isn't it kind of a faux-pas to do that?


HatfieldCW

I know foxes have paws, but I can't find a single doover on this horse.


NFTY_GIFTY

What a douche baguette


PoconoBobobobo

The spelling for hors d'oeuvres always looks like "horse devourer" to my English-speaking brain.


DerpVaderXXL

Does he drive a BMW and bitch about how the traffic wouldn't be this bad if we were on the Autoban?


Dull-Chemistry5166

FU - pardon my French


CheveuxBleu

Being french, I'm enjoying the lecture of those commentary.


Chaotic424242

Whore's doovers


Mcdonnellmetal

Well sack lablue doo tabernack du powersaw