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Re: Plural prefix?

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Saturday, February 7, 2004, 18:12
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'.