Re: French pronunciation (Was: Re: Fw: [wika] Boreanesian)

Daniel Seriff scripsit:

> I discovered last summer that this is only really true in Paris and
> thereabouts. My ex-girlfriend and I were in Aix-en-Provence, and we were
> treated substantially better there than Paris in relation to our
> French-speaking attempts.
Maybe this has to do with the fact that French was a learned-language
in Provence until the 1900s?

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