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From: James Eason <jeason@midway.uchicago.edu>
Subject: Re: Dialling (was Re: Is '#' a "pound sign" or what?)
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mheinz@ssw.com (Michael Heinz) writes:
>There was an article in the Phillie Inquirer recently, by a long
>time french speaker about how she has completely given up trying to
>convince people how to pronounce french words.  They insist on
>generalizing the pronounciation of certain french words into rules
>about how to pronounce all french words.  When she insists that,
>having lived in France, she knows the correct way to do it, they just
>blow it off.
>
1. Those words aren't French. They're English. The word "lingerie", for 
example, is an English word pronounced "lahn zher ray", roughly, not a 
French word mispronounced.

2. My experience with "long-time french speaker"s who attempt to correct 
pronunciation tells me that one reason people don't listen to her is 
that she's wrong.  This has been the case in roughly 100 out of 100 
instances of such correction that I can think of.


