KevinS
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How does one pronounce ‘bouilloire’
Please spell the way it is said phonetically.
How does one pronounce ‘bouilloire’
Please spell the way it is said phonetically.
Very interesting, Kevin . . . I didn’t know that it’s Mow-ett. Do tell why!If you're a Queen fan then you pronounce Moët as Mow-ay, as in "She keeps her Moët and Chandon in a pretty cabinet". The correct pronunciation is Mow-ett, and yes, I know why, but I'll leave room for someone else to play.
Very interesting, Kevin . . . I didn’t know that it’s Mow-ett. Do tell why!
Monsieur Moët, while French, had a Dutch “nom de famille”. French pronunciation rules don’t apply.
How about Cristal Champagne? At Nikki and Le Ti they say ‘chris stall’ not like the English crystal ‘chris tull.’
Great information, Hank . . . I love language. Not sure, however, that I’ll remember it as there probably aren’t too many occasions to use it!Btw, returning to original subject of OP (moi :nerd the process of turning L’Orient into Lorient is called agglutination. Same word French and English.
It means glueing disparate parts into one.
I discovered this thanks to Kevin’s Licorne post in resto section.
The etymology of Licorne (unicorn) suggests it came from the agglutination of the Latin “unicorno” with the article “L”. Just like Lorient.
Voilà.
. . . I love language.
the process of turning L’Orient into Lorient is called agglutination.
Now I’m going to be giving a suspicious look to every word which starts with ‘l’, LOL.