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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink13•1 month agoI also feel that way when I properly pronounce Mon’rree-all
minus-squareChloé 🥕linkfedilink4•1 month agopro tip: make no one happy by pronouncing it “mount-reel”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•1 month agoEven that n is suspect. Surprise French silent letters be like Moh-reh-aal
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•edit-21 month agoThis is more like it We don’t say the N or the T Canadian Mor re al is how I would write it but yours is probably better for pronouncing
minus-squareChloé 🥕linkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-21 month agotbh, the n isn’t silent in french, it serves to make the /ɔ̃/ sound (it’s kind of a nasally O) with the “on” digraph (adressed at anyone reading) btw, does the /ɔ̃/ sound even exist in english? i can’t find any example of it…
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•1 month agoThe way the quizzical “huh” is sometimes pronounced is close perhaps? I don’t know if I’d call that an English word though.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•1 month agoI mean, no letters are really silent, they affect the pronunciation of adjacent letters. I’d say you don’t pronounce the ‘n’ like an ‘n’, making it silentish, and it affects the adjacent ‘o’, giving it a more gutteral sound. Now if only I could roll an ‘r’ instead of gurgle it
minus-squareMubelotixlinkfedilink3•1 month agoThere are no rules for the names of places. Most places prefixed by “mont” will have a silent t, but I live near a place called Montrichard and the t must be pronounced
I also feel that way when I properly pronounce Mon’rree-all
I feel dirty pronouncing De-twah
pro tip: make no one happy by pronouncing it “mount-reel”
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Even that n is suspect. Surprise French silent letters be like
Moh-reh-aal
This is more like it
We don’t say the N or the T
Mor re al is how I would write it but yours is probably better for pronouncing
tbh, the n isn’t silent in french, it serves to make the /ɔ̃/ sound (it’s kind of a nasally O) with the “on” digraph
(adressed at anyone reading) btw, does the /ɔ̃/ sound even exist in english? i can’t find any example of it…
The way the quizzical “huh” is sometimes pronounced is close perhaps? I don’t know if I’d call that an English word though.
I mean, no letters are really silent, they affect the pronunciation of adjacent letters.
I’d say you don’t pronounce the ‘n’ like an ‘n’, making it silentish, and it affects the adjacent ‘o’, giving it a more gutteral sound.
Now if only I could roll an ‘r’ instead of gurgle it
handeare commonly silent in French.There are no rules for the names of places. Most places prefixed by “mont” will have a silent t, but I live near a place called Montrichard and the t must be pronounced
It’s more like mon-ray-ahl.