How Spelling Keeps Kids From Learning

Re:How Spelling Keeps Kids From Learning by juliangregorian on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @12:13PM (#9028435)

In proper french nouns the final consonant is usually pronounced.

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Re:How Spelling Keeps Kids From Learning by dghf on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @01:33PM (#9028939)

Is that really the case? There seem to be an awful lot where it's not: Bardot, Paris, Nantes, Flaubert, Monet, Camus, Dumas, Rimbaud, Truffaut, Roux, Lacroix, Godard, Foucault, Bordeaux, Versailles, Calais, Maginot....

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Re:How Spelling Keeps Kids From Learning by juliangregorian on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @02:32PM (#9029340)

I should say "often" rather than "usually". Regular french nouns are much stricter in contrast.

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Re:How Spelling Keeps Kids From Learning by dghf on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @03:37PM (#9029724)

That I can believe. English proper nouns are likewise typically more badly behaved, especially British English ones: Worcester (WUSS-ter), Featherstonehaugh (FAN-shaw), Dalziel, (d'-YELL), Menzies (MING-iz).

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