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Language rant of the week: nothing starts on Tuesday
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26/10/2007 09:16:23
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
 
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>I'd disagree with several of those:
>
>Camus - Cammewss ("ew" being forming the lips to say "o" but trying to say "ee"). Normally a terminal "s" is silent but French has its exceptions like English does.
>Debut - duh-bew ("uh" being the "nothing" vowel)
>Design - Deh-zeenyuh ("eh" as in "heh!")
>Dupree - Dew-prey
>Peugeot - Puh-zho
>piedmont - pih-yeh-mohn ("ohn" as in nasal "on", the "n" practically disappearing, but no "t" pronounced
>randezvousRendezvous
>Hugo - Ewgo

You speak the language, I don't. You're probably closer to the original, so I'd agree on the most, except where you introduce an extraneous -y in the end (as in -ey) or before the u (-ew) which I never heard in French. They never had the great vowel shift the way you did.

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