Re: Exceptions to the -tion rule in French

Quoting laokou <laokou@...>:

> Sidebar: I was unfamiliar with "pankration", so I looked it up in the
> Webster's. Didn't find it, but apparently the word survives in English
> in its Latin form, "pancratium", which they say should be pronounced
> <shudder> /p&nkreSi@m/. Yech!
Oh, I agree! I've always gotten the impression that lexicographers
never bother to actually ask the kind of people who use those
words how they pronounce them.  In my experience, such people ALWAYS
use some kind of hellenized / latinized English pronunciation.

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Must think it exceedingly odd            *I* am always about in the Quad
If he finds that this tree               And that's why the tree
continues to be                          will continue to be
when there's no one about in the Quad.'" Since observed by,
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