Quoting Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>:
> En réponse à Padraic Brown <elemtilas@...>:
> > > since they also have /S/
> > > they can make an effort and not affricate French
> > > |ch| :))) .
> >
> > Yeah. Well, it ain't spelled that way! :Þ
> >
> Yes it is... in French ;))) .
Exactly why should someone be expected to know the values
of foreign words when they haven't been trained in it?
> Anyway, most Americans wouldn't be able to correctly situate Paris and
> Prague...
That's true. And most Europeans would probably have difficulty
situating St. Louis and Chicago. (I remember an anecdote on
sci.lang several years ago to that effect.)
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