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Re:French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’ by nescioquid on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @06:52PM (#27454370)
maux? culot?

I feel like we can find more ;-)

But I have learned I had a misconception about what a phonetic spelling is. I had thought that a phonetic spelling had the property of every sound in the language having one way to spell it, but that is not the case; instead for every grapheme there is one sound.

As a native English speaker, learning a little French (after German and Latin) opened my eyes to the horrors of English. Really French is very tame in comparison.

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Re:French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’ by tsimionescu on Thursday June 10, 2021 @02:07AM (#27457342)
Forgot about 'au'; I think the x and t in these examples are misleading, they are just part of the general rule that final consonants are not pronounced (though there are exceptions to that rule).
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