Here’s how I remember by breaking it into 3 parts.

bour: because the rich are a “bore” and they suck

geo: because the rich rule the world

isie: “easy” because spelling bourgeoisie is easy!

What’s your favorite method?

17 points

simply learn fr*nch orthography

Death to America

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We are talking about the capitalist class, or the owning class

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to the tune of ‘mickey mouse’:

B O U

R G E

O I S I E

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Yes, I pick this one! Because Mickey is bourgeoisie and that song had been drilled into my head by the corporate machine anyway!

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My fave method is letting autocorrect get it. Because im lazy.

Easy peasy.

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i just remember it’s french so if it looks too logical i’ll just add some vowels in between

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I usually look at easily-misspelled words in terms of etymology. The word itself stems from “city-dwellers:”

  1. The root word in “bourgeois/borgeoisie” is “bourg,” which means a city or small town.
  2. Then a silent E to represent the French silencing their colonial subjects.
  3. Then a pretentious “-ois” because, again, the French
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