At 10:20 AM 8/1/03 +1000, Russell Chapman wrote:Jan Coffey wrote:
Loo-tin-at Ker-nal.Leftennant Kernal for those of us who recognise Queen Elizabeth II.
If Lieutenant is a french word, we say leftennant and USA'ns say Lootenant, what do the French say?
Lieutenant. You can approximate it with LEE, followed by the U sound in "hurt", then the T, skip the e and the nant copuld be pronounced as in english, stopping before the NT. In other words don't say NAY, but NAnt, keeping the last two sounds silent.
The tonal accent would be over the EU.
"oui -- soo -- ren -- der"
;-)
What's "seal" in french? :-p
Jean-Louis "Don't answer that" Couturier
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