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Re: Ennui (was Re: Multilingual translation exercise, part 1)

From:Nihil Sum <nihilsum@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 18, 2002, 8:09
>Dare I ask how anglophones pronounce _ennui_?
"on-wee" And since we're on the topc of mangling French loanwords: does anybody know how the "f" got into "lieutenant"? NS _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com

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John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Clint Jackson Baker <litrex1@...>Pronunciations.
BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
Michael Poxon <m.poxon@...>