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French has much stricter rules, but I could see how the abundance of silent letters would make a spelling bee harder.
by gottorf 1y ago
French has much stricter rules, but I could see how the abundance of silent letters would make a spelling bee harder.
- ralferoo 1y agoFrench also has some weird gotchas, e.g. "la démocratie" where the spelling represents the word's root rather than pronunciation.
- cm2187 1y agoAn even worse example is the last name "de Broglie", which I think most French natives would likely get wrong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k45IZDkg2Pg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k45IZDkg2Pg
- gottorf 1y agoNot nearly as bad as the English pronouncing, say, the name Cholmondeley :-)