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I'm American and pronounce Jacques and Jack the way they described. If someone said [ʒak], I would transcribe it as Jacques, and if someone said [dʒæk], I would transcribe it as Jack. It may be a French name, but it's not very foreign. (If I heard [dʒak], I would assume the speaker is British and transcribe it as Jack). I was confused reading people say that Jacques is pronounced the same as Jack, so it does seem lik…
I’d say the amount of time before that sneak edit from Jacques to Jack lends credibility my claim of the two’s “essential interchangability”.
My original sentence repeated the same word twice as a typo. It was this:
> I was confused reading people say that Jacques is pronounced the same as Jacques.
I realized my mistake and edited it to this:
> I was confused reading people say that Jacques is pronounced the same as Jack.
If we'd been discussing the words "chick" and "chic," I might have accidentally written:
> I was originally confused reading people say that chick is pronounced them the same as chick.
Then I'd realize my error and edit it to:
> I was originally confused reading people say that chick is pronounced them the same as chic.
That doesn't mean I actually pronounce "chick" the same way as "chic" and it doesn't make the words interchangeable in the dialect I speak. "Chic" is pronounced like "Sheikh," referring to the Arab leader, or like "Sheik" from the Legend of Zelda. I'll be confused if you say "a baby Sheikh" instead of "a baby chick," and if you say "chick fashion" instead of "chic fashion" I'll be thrown off but realize you meant "chic."