Re: Cloak room... x: [YAEUT] Lexical variation survey

Fr. toilette :: Germ. [to'let@] -- OK, so "oi" [wa] pronounced as [o]

Henrik Theiling wrote:
>
>Other words seem to typically be tried to be modelled more closely to
>French (like 'Reservoir' -- I'd even use /wa/ there).
Aha-- here's (US) Engl. doing the same thing: ['r\ez@vor\] (though some
elitists do say [...vwa\r] but still with initial stress)

And repertoire ~repetoire (usu. pronounced a la Française) but anglicized
_repertory_

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