Re: YAEPT French loans
| From: | R A Brown <ray@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 6:31 |
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Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
> Mark J. Reed skrev:
>> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 2:33 PM, R A Brown <ray@...>
>> wrote:
>>> But you mustn't lump all anglophones together. The Merkans do
>>> consistently
>>> give final stress to French loan words
>>
>> See? :)
>
> I did say the initial stress on French loans
> was a British habit, actually.
If it's only Brits you're concerned with, I guess it's for much the same
reason that the French apparently "don't hear" English stress patterns.
Our neighbors across the Channel generally pronounce English borrowings
and English names, stressing them in the French manner; we return the
compliment :)
But this is way off topic.
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