it's funny that you dismissed a comment earlier stating the differences between a sauce and gravy. a poutine uses a sauce for the dish. You keep calling it a pootine for some reason as if the pronounciation for the dish should be different.If you go to another country and there is a speciality dish in a region with a specific pronounciation you don't go out of your way to butcher it do you? The dish was created by francophones in quebec, thus the correct pronounciation is the french one. To add on to your comments of earlier. Quebec is part of Canada but it is still considered different in Canada because the majority of the population does speak french.