Dave, Just so you don't lose sleep over things like this. :-) Some of us never had French at all. And people with mother tongues other than English frequently mangle English words, so I guess that evens out the playing field. Still, I do support learning correct pronunciations when we can. Thanks. Regards, Clyde Dave Nereson wrote: > It's 'beaucoup', and pronounced "bow-coo", not "bookoo" . (That's 'bow' as > in violin bow, not 'bow' as in bow-wow. I know everybody says 'bookoo > bucks', but it's wrong, I tell you, wrong!) Another one that grates on my > gizzard: The Montreux Jazz Festival. It's "mohn-treu", with the 'eu' > sounding a bit like the 'oo' in 'book', and NOT 'Mon-troh'. To be > pronounced "Mon-troh", it would have to be spelled "Mantreaux". This is not > graduate level French, but stuff I remember from 7th grade.
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