the proper way to pronounce the first part of the word may be the exact response you may give if someone asked, “Do you have to pee?”. And your response would be “Pee? No.” The second part of the word–Noir
Before and during the American Revolution, the English, both in England and in the colonies, mostly spoke with a rhotic accent. The explanation lies in the fact that all emigrant languages have a tendency to linguistic nostalgia – that is they tend to preserve archaic forms of pronunciation lo...