Re: Plural prefix?

Ray Brown wrote:

> On Friday, February 6, 2004, at 11:04 PM, Joe wrote:
>
>> Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>>> Actually, to be more correct, and closer to actual pronunciations, you
>>> should write:
>>>                 SING.           PLURAL
>>> DEFINITE        /le'kOl/        /lEze'kOl/
>>> INDEFINITE      /yne'kOl/       /dEze'kOl/
>>>
>>> The E~e distinction is phonemic.
>>
>
> Thanks for the correction.
>
>>
>> But French has suffixed plural markers too.  As in the sentence 'les
>> écoles ont'.
>
>
> I don't recall saying it hadn't. But the /z/ appears only in liaison, as
> in the above (tho to my simple simple mind "The schools have" is hardly a
> sentence).

Brain-fart.  Sorry.   I either meant to have an object there, or just
replaced 'phrase' for 'sentence'.