Re: USAGE: Language revival
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, November 30, 1999, 22:20 |
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Raymond Brown wrote:
> My wife, who in any case speaks French fluently, always stresses the final
> syllable; but she says it the French way /tuRkwaz/.
That sounds like "tourquoise". Surely it's /tyRkwaz/?
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