Your 'correct pronunciations' were vile manglings of English to your parents; they're were the same to their grandparents. It's just the way language goes over time
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MsPraxis
Driving home earlier and on the radio (#774 #ABCMelbourne), the young woman carefully and earnestly reading the news pronounced debut as (I kid you not) "dee-beaut". Is it just me or is poor to out-and-out incorrect pronunciation more, er, pronounced these days? Seem to hear it everywhere.
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Just like what happened to all the other French words in English that no longer sound French but make up most of our vocab nonetheless