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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
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.