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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•10 days agoEven that n is suspect. Surprise French silent letters be like Moh-reh-aal
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•edit-210 days 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-squareMubelotixlinkfedilink3•10 days 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
minus-squareChloé 🥕linkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-210 days 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•10 days 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•10 days 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
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
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
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.