Flagellation doesn't work. Let me offer you this. Lots of French words end in -eur: amateur, poseur, auteur, etc. Where English uses -er or -or, French uses

Flagellation doesn't work. Let me offer you this. Lots of French words end in -eur: amateur, poseur, auteur, etc. Where English uses -er or -or, French uses -eur: for example, "motor" is "moteur". The trigraph "eue" does not occur in French; it would make no sense. Well, that's not much of a memory aid, but maybe it will help anyway.