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Article #876Re: Fractured French (was Re: Good bread, good meat, good God, let'seat
From: Michael Dix
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 06:59
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 06:59
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Paul Russell wrote: > > One also hears some pretty bizarre pronunciations even here in chic, > cosmopolitan CA, e.g. > > car-mel Of course: Carmel, California. If you mean car-a-mel, plenty of people say it that way here, too. > real-a-tor The vowel is added by some linguistic process whose name I no longer remember. > 'erb There's no "h" in French, silly. But we should pronounce it airb, it's true. My only consolation is that you lot used to pronounce it urb, too, according to Chambers. > l-eye-ma bean Named after L-eye-ma, Ohio. > end-eye-v Also OK per Chambers, although of course we should pronounce it on-deev. > (OK - I know - a "real-a-tor" is not normally a food item but I couldn't > resist) You vegetarians have strange ideas of what carnivores eat. -- mjdix@sonic.net
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