Re: [Very-OT] Re: ü

From: Alain LaBonté (alb@iquebec.com)
Date: Wed Jan 23 2002 - 15:54:44 EST


A 00:35 2002-01-23 +0000, Michael Everson a écrit :
>At 18:30 -0500 2002-01-22, Patrick Andries wrote:
>>
>>Obviously (I advocate in French changing the spelling of common foreign
>>words so that there would be more consistency).
>
>Le ouiquende?

That would be pronounced "wikãd"... To respect the English pronunciation
you would have to write it "ouiquennde", which would still be a very odd
spelling in French... The "end" sound is really not French in itself...

Alain LaBonté
Québec



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