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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^Ditto, and I’m from Indiana. I’ve also never heard Midwesterners talk about “the States.”[/quote]

Yes, I've spent a lot of time living in various parts of the Midwest and have never heard anyone using these expressions either.

I've heard people who are presently living overseas discuss when they plan to fly back to "the States" to visit, or return to "the States" to live, but I've never heard anyone living in the US refer to their country as "the States." Can anyone give an example of the context in which people are saying this?
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“The croissants in Paris are exquisite.  So much better than anything you get in the States.”  -my MIL, while sitting on her porch in Pennsylvania, pronouncing “croissant” as “KWA-sant”[/quote]

? That is (close) to how it’s pronounced. Is she supposed to say Kra-SANT? That pronunciation drives me loopy[/quote]

Sometimes "correct" can seem a little affected. I speak French fluently, but here in "the States," I generally order a "cruh-SAHNT." I think it'd come across as pretentious if I said "KWAH-sanh." (It would be as bad, in my view, as insisting on saying "pair-ee" when people ask me about my last trip to France.)

My only real issue with my in-laws is that they have a compulsive need to always [i]do[/i] something. Sitting and watching a baseball game on TV while we lazily chat and have a beer or two is not an option. Fortunately, the happy solution to this is to always have little projects when they visit. Install some new blinds, clean out the fridge, build some shelving in the garage -- they love feeling like they're helping and I love having that kind of help! [/quote]

Unless you're a native French speaker or you use the same principle for all other French/English words (that is, you pronounce Paris as "pair-ee"), it comes off as affected and obnoxious.  [/quote]

+2 fluent french speaker here. I would never say Kwa-sant. Seriously?[/quote]

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