<p>bour-geois.
The etymology is “bourg” (equivalent of burg, or burgh or borough). “geois” is pronounced the same as “jois” (silent s). Hamburg, Williamsburg, Edinburgh, Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Cherbourg, Les Bourgeois de Calais.</p>
<p>Anything that ends with a ough should be pronounced off as in “enough.” I don’t have enough dough to carry that off.</p>
<p>You can see that my native language is French (failry logical pronunciation even if the grammar is not) and that English pronunciation was as baffling to me as French must be to Americans.</p>