I'm working with a very charming non native English speaker, so acknowledging that this Fess is a bit unkind. But he uses the word "focus" a lot. And when he does, it comes out as "fock yous". Which has me giggling like a schoolboy every time he says it. Sorry.
@fesshole This is a problem with English's inherent y-sound put into u. For instance: unicorn, universe, uniform, university, user, and even the loan-word ukulele (which doesn't in it's original Hawaiian pronunciation). For a non-native speaker, it makes sense it'd be difficult to know which instances of u do or don't have that inherent unwritten y-sound.
@dusepo @fesshole Right, but the wrong things are sometimes getting taught. In this case it needs to be “say faux-kiss”
@whophd @fesshole In my accent it's foh-kuss. 🤷‍♀️