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how is this pronounced? I once mentioned this in a meeting and got pronunciation nitpicked for allegedly not saying it correctly - but according to the Oxford dictionary it is pronounced the "obvious" way that I pronounced it: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/englis...

but the smug pronunciation nitpicker insisted "Robert" was pronounced the French way, i.e. https://www.howtopronounce.com/french/robert

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Like the French pronunciation of "Bucket."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FboWtJiNYro

I knew exactly what I’d be seeing. That show was outstanding! It gets funnier the older I get.

Good,point about aging into it. When you are younger you don’t care what the neighbors think really, your only social positions that count are amongst your friends and at school so you don’t really grok where Violet is coming from it’s all just boring old people without that.

I’ve lived in an English-French community my whole life, and AFAIK, Robert’s Rules are mainly used by English organizations. All French orgs I know of use some variation of the “Code Morin” instead.

I’m francophone and I pronounce “Robert” the English way.

Or go Scottish, and roll the 'r'...

Lol, ‘cause this American general pronounced his name “the French way”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Martyn_Robert

I have definitely never heard anyone pronounce the "Robert" of "Robert's Rules" in the French way. If I encountered that, I would find it abhorrently pretentious.

Perhaps your interlocutor was confused with Roget.

> but according to the Oxford dictionary it is pronounced the "obvious" way that I pronounced it: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/englis...

Just to point out, if you refer to "the Oxford dictionary", people are likely to think you mean the immensely prestigious Oxford English Dictionary, not the completely irrelevant Oxford Learner's Dictionaries.

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