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In proper french nouns the final consonant is usually pronounced.
by juliangregorian 12y ago
In proper french nouns the final consonant is usually pronounced.
- dghf 12y agoIs that really the case? There seem to be an awful lot where it's not: Bardot, Paris, Nantes, Flaubert, Monet, Camus, Dumas, Rimbaud, Truffaut, Roux, Lacroix, Godard, Foucault, Bordeaux, Versailles, Calais, Maginot....
- juliangregorian 12y agoI should say "often" rather than "usually". Regular french nouns are much stricter in contrast.
- dghf 12y agoThat I can believe. English proper nouns are likewise typically more badly behaved, especially British English ones: Worcester (WUSS-ter), Featherstonehaugh (FAN-shaw), Dalziel, (d'-YELL), Menzies (MING-iz).