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>>So how did you pick up the pronunciation from this thread, from the French?
>>What did you think it was before? DAN-DELion?
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>Yeah, I thought it would be "dan-dElly-on", but that was about 30 years ago, when I thought I could guess the pronunciation by analogy (to other English words, not to French). I gave up on guessing - when I try to use a word I read but never heard, I simply ask "how do you pronounce...". There are no rules, there's only dictionary.
You want to get a dictionary that includes the phonetic pronunciation then (as I thought all had)
BTW I swear the daffodils (daff-O-dils not duh-FOD-lls :-) around here are in bud already - the heads of the plants are bulging and showing yellow;.
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
