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1. seszet+(OP)[view] [source] 2022-09-09 05:35:07
It's in any case unlikely for a French speaker to mispronounce "happiness" as "a penis".
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2. dissen+P[view] [source] 2022-09-09 05:43:39
>>seszet+(OP)
happiness => 'appinesss => a penis
3. danuke+hh[view] [source] 2022-09-09 08:22:39
>>seszet+(OP)
In French, the initial 'h' is mute. Here is "hospital" in French as an example. See the "Pronunciation" section.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/h%C3%B4pital

So the occurrence is quite possible.

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4. seszet+7v[view] [source] [discussion] 2022-09-09 10:37:05
>>danuke+hh
Well, I'm actually a French speaker and what makes me say that is the "a" in happiness that is IMO never going to be pronounced by a French speaker the same way as the "a" in "a penis".

The "e" might get pronounced as the "I" in penis by a good enough English speaker, but probably not by a bad English speaker.

I also believe that stress would be totally different, put only on the "a" by a French speaker.

5. ehnto+lz[view] [source] 2022-09-09 11:20:29
>>seszet+(OP)
Even some English speakers omit the H, 'appiness. Give it a little inflection and you've got yourself a penis. I did watch a French burlesque show that had a comedy bit based in on this very mispronunciation, but that may well have been contrived.
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