Re: OT: Another French name pronunciation question

En réponse à Mark J. Reed :


>I haven't found any detailed biographical information, but he was
>born in Chalons-sur-Saone.  His full name was Joseph Nicéphore
>Niepce.  Interestingly, I have run across different spellings of
>the last name; some have no accent (while preserving the one in
>Nicéphore, so it's not just ASCIIfication), while others have
>the grave.  But on what appears to be his official French website,
>it's the acute.
Even French people make orthographic mistakes, especially since quite often 
proper nouns have various spellings, which don't even necessarily follow 
actual French orthographic rules (for all I know, Niepce could very well be 
pronounced /njEs/! Silent preconsonantal p's are not that uncommon). But 
"Niépce" still does strike me as a strange and unexpected spelling. When 
did the man live?

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang. 

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