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English & Linguistics / Re: Strange Proununciations

« Last post by Ela on January 07, 2025, 07:11:57 PM »

Yeah, I wondered if she'd studied French, as well. Can't remember anymore who said it.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Strange Proununciations

« Last post by Jonathon on January 07, 2025, 01:59:52 PM »

Merriam-Webster does list is as the second pronunciation, but it does make me wonder if the speaker has studied français.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Strange Proununciations

« Last post by Ela on January 07, 2025, 01:43:32 PM »

I don't think it's an accepted pronounciation for malaise in English. But the way she said it was very close to the way it's pronounced in French.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Strange Proununciations

« Last post by Jonathon on January 06, 2025, 08:20:20 AM »

Huh. I've never heard that before either.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Strange Proununciations

« Last post by Ela on January 05, 2025, 09:54:44 PM »

There's was a story on NPR about President Jimmy Carter's malaise speech and the NPR reporter pronounced it ma-lez, which I guess is close to the French pronounciation, but not the way I've ever heard it pronounced in English.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...

« Last post by Tante Shvester on October 10, 2024, 11:19:46 AM »

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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...

« Last post by Tante Shvester on October 10, 2024, 11:19:16 AM »

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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...

« Last post by Tante Shvester on October 10, 2024, 11:17:23 AM »

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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...

« Last post by rivka on October 08, 2024, 06:07:02 PM »

The UCLA one sounds about right.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...

« Last post by Jonathon on October 08, 2024, 05:55:57 PM »