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Old Posted Sep 20, 2017, 1:30 PM
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Originally Posted by SaskOttaLoo View Post
In French? When I say Toque it rhymes with Duke! I quickly checked online to make sure I wasn't going crazy and it seems not.

Edit: I see I wasn't alone in this.
If, like me, your "tuque" rhymes with "duke", then you also speak of the evening "nyews" and describe young people going to school as "styoudents". Or at least it does in my case, although I think it is a studied, rather than inherited, pronunciation.
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