Re: OT: Another French name pronunciation question
From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
Date: | Friday, January 30, 2004, 19:56 |
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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