Re: Fractured French (was Re: Good bread, good meat, good God, let'seat

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From: Tony Lew
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Michael Dix <look@sig.please.because.this.is.invalid> wrote in message news:<3E44A623.89B17E81@sig.please.because.this.is.invalid>...
> 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.

    I once saw Rick Bayless on a Food-TV special say that a certain
Mexican herb "tastes like anise", but the way he pronounced anise, it
sounded like he said, "tastes like anus".

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