People are only just realising they've been pronouncing 'croissant' wrong

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

Croissants, the flaky, buttery pastries that take the shape of a crescent, are an unbeatable delight. Indeed, best enjoyed warm, they're quite the treat whether lavished with butter and jam, slathered in chocolate spread, sprinkled with almonds, brimming with ham and cheese, or simply served as they come.

Croissants may stand as one of France's finest offerings to the globe, second possibly only to Marion Cotillard. Yet, it seems that a considerable number of people have just realised they've been mispronouncing 'croissant', causing our neighbours over the Channel to brand us Brits "les incompetents". Read more: 'I tried the £10 croissant butter spread that's gone viral - it's a breakfast gamechanger' If you've been uttering 'cross-aunt' all this time, you're off the mark.

Or perhaps you attempted a more continental 'cross-son'? Wrong again. On Threads, the user VeryBritishProblemsOfficial posed the query: "What's a word from a foreign language that Brits absolutely love to try and pronounce very correctly?

I'll go for: 'croissant'." Responding to this, someone admitted: "Errrr, how do you say croissant? Coz I say cross-onts." Another then queried: "So cross-aunt is wrong? " Promptly, another replied: "It's kwa-son, like the start of quack." Indeed, a brief search confirms that the precise articulation of 'croissant' should sound much like 'kwa-son'.