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How do you pronounce “shampooing” in French?
le shampooing / le shampoing
French pronunciation surprise
shampoo — an English word kept on paper, but said roughly “shahn-pwan,” with nasal vowels
French borrowed the English word shampooing and kept the spelling, but not the sound. It comes out roughly as shahn-pwan — /ʃɑ̃pwɛ̃/, with nasal vowels and no trace of “sham-poo” left in it — one of the sharpest reminders that a familiar-looking word on a French label tells you nothing about how to say it. The spelling is drifting too: shampoing with one o is now the more common form, though bottles still often print shampooing.
The words French built on top of it went the other way and respell the sound outright: shampouiner (to shampoo), un shampouineur / une shampouineuse (the person, and the carpet machine). Those -oui- spellings are the pronunciation written down.
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