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Article #877Re: Fractured French (was Re: Good bread, good meat, good God, let'seat
From: Paul Russell
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 07:17
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 07:17
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Michael Dix wrote: > > If you mean car-a-mel, plenty of people say it that way here, too. > > I haven't heard the missing "a" since I arrived in CA, but it's only been a couple of years, so I guess I should be more patient. >>real-a-tor > > > The vowel is added by some linguistic process whose name I no longer > remember. > A few suggestions come to mind. > >>'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. > If it were "herbe" then the "'erb" pronunciation would be OK, but it's the English spelling with the faux French pronunciation that really grates. > >>l-eye-ma bean > > > Named after L-eye-ma, Ohio. > > "My bad." >>end-eye-v > > > Also OK per Chambers, although of course we should pronounce it > on-deev. > > So long as you don't mix and match I guess it's OK - "ondive" would be nearly as bad as "'erb". > >>(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. > Well if a bunch of real-a-tors went on vacation to, say, Papua New Guinea there's a chance they might get eaten. Paul
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