Not to worry. I am not perturbed by that as any French-speaking kid on either side of the Atlantic would be able to sing the French version of the song, which I believe might be the original. I remember it from the 70s and my kids and all their friends who are noughties also know it. We even all know the hand gestures that go along with it.
BTW there is no credible link between the song and the capital of Burkina Faso. Though being a francophone country I guess they probably sing it there too.
There are many but will shoot off some north American city names that come to mind.
Detroit
Vancouver
Mississauga
Oshawa
Ottawa
Grand Prairie
Akron
Wichita
Chattanooga
Tallahasse
Banff
Boston
Buffalo
Philadelphia
Knoxville
Anaheim
Pasadena
Milwaukee
Chicago
Oklahoma
Tulsa
Phoenix
Nome
Dawson City
Chihuahua
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Just an aside, I love the city but I don't care for Pittsburgh as a city name. Add "Pitt," which can have a negative homophone with "Burg," which sound small and provincial and you get a name that doesn't project well. Keeping the original Scottish "Pittsborough" pronunciation just sounds nicer.
Related, Duquesne would have been a great alternative had the English not renamed the settlement after taking the eponymous fort.
Burg in German means a Castle, Berg means a Mountain. Both are for large strong powerful places. A castle was like a human made mountain. Nothing small about a burg
Nuremberg,Wurzburg ,Salzburg ... they all have big high castles to defend their cites
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Just an aside, I love the city but I don't care for Pittsburgh as a city name. Add "Pitt," which can have a negative homophone with "Burg," which sound small and provincial and you get a name that doesn't project well. Keeping the original Scottish "Pittsborough" pronunciation just sounds nicer.
Related, Duquesne would have been a great alternative had the English not renamed the settlement after taking the eponymous fort.
Wait, hold on, you're implying there is some other way people say that?
Like, Barkelona?
No. Ugh.
It's Barthelona in standard Spanish, and Barselona in Catalan. You can rest easy knowing no one on the Iberian peninsula is saying Barkelona. Though I'm not sure which pronunciation muppet had in mind, as "s" and "th" could both be considered soft c's I suppose.
Not to worry. I am not perturbed by that as any French-speaking kid on either side of the Atlantic would be able to sing the French version of the song, which I believe might be the original. I remember it from the 70s and my kids and all their friends who are noughties also know it. We even all know the hand gestures that go along with it.
BTW there is no credible link between the song and the capital of Burkina Faso. Though being a francophone country I guess they probably sing it there too.
It's closer to the Fr-speaking pronunciation. We call it Barcelone here, or Barça for soccer fans, where either c or ç is pronounced like the Catalan s.
I agree that some Castilian sounds need an upgrade.
They kinda sound like they have some hair on their tongues, and their j is just rough.
Like in mujer. I have to scrape my throat to produce it, and it's a pain.
Burg in German means a Castle, Berg means a Mountain. Both are for large strong powerful places. A castle was like a human made mountain. Nothing small about a burg
Nuremberg,Wurzburg ,Salzburg ... they all have big high castles to defend their cites
Pretty the "burg" suffix in German refers to a town or city of some kind. Similar to "burgh" in Scotland, "bourg" in French, and even maybe "-ton" in English. Salzburg = Salt-Town.
Burg in German means a Castle, Berg means a Mountain. Both are for large strong powerful places. A castle was like a human made mountain. Nothing small about a burg
Nuremberg,Wurzburg ,Salzburg ... they all have big high castles to defend their cites
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Pretty the "burg" suffix in German refers to a town or city of some kind. Similar to "burgh" in Scotland, "bourg" in French, and even maybe "-ton" in English. Salzburg = Salt-Town.
Castle in German is "schloss" I am pretty sure.
Will be happily corrected if proven wrong.
English would be -borough, like the boroughs of NYC.
The meaning of fortress/castle and walled city both kind of make sense since historically many pre-modern big towns and cities were protected by defensive walls/castles.
"Burghs were typically settlements under the protection of a castle and usually had a market place, with a widened high street or junction, marked by a mercat cross, beside houses for the burgesses and other inhabitants."
Also the same root as that eventually became the term "bourgeoisie", which originally were urbanites, often merchants and traders, who were wealthier than those in the rural hinterlands.
I remember it from the 70s and my kids and all their friends who are noughties also know it. We even all know the hand gestures that go along with it.
It goes to show what a cultural barrier language can be. Despite 2 years in Quebec and decades in the rest of Canada I've never heard of that song in any language. So that is taught to francophone kids in grade school?
Not including songs translated into English (like O Canada) the only francophone song that would be known in anglophone Canada is Alouette. Even there, I don't know the words but would know what song it was if I heard it.
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It goes to show what a cultural barrier language can be. Despite 2 years in Quebec and decades in the rest of Canada I've never heard of that song in any language. So that is taught to francophone kids in grade school?
Not including songs translated into English (like O Canada) the only francophone song that would be known in anglophone Canada is Alouette. Even there, I don't know the words but would know what song it was if I heard it.
I think Alouette and Frère Jacques are Francophone songs that are known through the Anglo world, not just Anglo Canada, spreading as kids' songs, but I may be wrong.
It goes to show what a cultural barrier language can be. Despite 2 years in Quebec and decades in the rest of Canada I've never heard of that song in any language. So that is taught to francophone kids in grade school?
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Agadou is a novelty pop song, but it's kind of attained nursery rhyme status. It has hand gestures associated with it which works in its favour.
I think Alouette and Frère Jacques are Francophone songs that are known through the Anglo world, not just Anglo Canada, spreading as kids' songs, but I may be wrong.
I would assume that aside from songs like My Way and Beyond the Sea which are translations of French songs, most people would be familiar with perhaps an Édith Piaf song like La Vie en Rose.
There are a bunch of these non-English crossover songs that are known in the Anglosphere: think La Bamba or Cielito Lindo in Spanish, Volare in Italian, or even Sukiyaki in Japanese.
Haha...I kept waiting for someone to see that. It was a joke, of course (Schaumburg at the end of my list). I should have put it in the middle to see if people were really paying attention.
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Not to worry. I am not perturbed by that as any French-speaking kid on either side of the Atlantic would be able to sing the French version of the song, which I believe might be the original. I remember it from the 70s and my kids and all their friends who are noughties also know it. We even all know the hand gestures that go along with it.
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