Re: A break in the evils of English (or, Sturnan is beautiful)

En réponse à John Cowan <jcowan@...>:

>
> Indeed.  French has complex reading rules, but not so many
> irregularities
> (we have discussed "oignon" before, and IIRC "événement" would be
> more rationally spelled "évènement").
>
By the last orthographic reform it is! I don't use it for the simple reason
that I personally pronounce [evenma~] and not [evEnma~] (which strikes me as
exceedingly ugly :)) ). It's maybe a reading pronunciation (not anymore in my
case, since it's the most common pronunciation in the region I come from), but
I've heard it quite a lot everywhere, enough to consider that it's not
outnumbered by the people who pronounce [evEnma~]. It can be considered as one
of those cases where no solution is satisfactory :)) .

Christophe.

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