Americans learning to spell bourgeoisie: Imagine a burger, spelt differently
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Werner herzog spelling bourgeoisie: I do not respect the french language
in dutch burger means citizen
It’s because all those words have the same root:
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Either from the Proto-West Germanic "burg", which means fortification/fortified town (maybe goes even back further to the Proto-Germanic "burgz")
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or possibly the Ancient-Greek word "pýrgos", which was a tower fort
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or maybe something else. Proto-Celtic or if we go way back: the Proto-Indo-European bʰergʰ- "to protect"
There’s a lot of speculation involved to where exactly the roots are, but in the end it all means a small castle or fortified town in which the "burger" lived. 
Cheesed....borgar?
Bour: capitalism is boring
Geo: they rule the world
Isie: spelling bourgeoisie is easy
bouring
i can make it to 'borg' until i have to think really hard and then google the answer. the rest is some sort of vowel diarrhea that defies any attempt to recall it correctly
i am once again posting the word "borjussy"
how did we get stuck at this ridiculous word? why are we using the raw uncooked french word? what's wrong with "burghers"? or anything, really.
Its a remnant when french was the prestige language of european academia and higher thought. Burghery also sounds strange.
well, it's time to 
Borgwashere
Imagine you are speaking to a bee about how you are both currently located geographically in Internet Explorer (somehow)
B, our geo is IE
I pronounced "bourgeois" as "burg-oize" like it was a French burger or something for a long ass time.
bour - a burgher
geo - a rock
isie - fill in the blanks
Boogiewajee
To the tune of the Mickey Mouse Club song:
Who steals all the surplus value owed to you and me?
B O U
R G E
O I S I E
You will not be borgwuazied, anti-resistance is futile.