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

Hi!

Mark J. Reed writes:
>>  > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
>>  >>  BTW, I pronounce['Toilette'] /to'lEt@/, because it's German! :-)
>>  >
>>  > ... so what happened to the <i>?
>>
>>  It's a germanised form from the French /twalEt/.  No /i/ there.
>
> Well, make up your mind.  Is it German or is it Germanized French? :)
>
> Seriously, though, the German pronunciation is clearly not based on
> the French pronunciation
My feeling says it is.  There may be people who pronounce it more like
French than me, but no-one uses /oi/ or anything similar there.

> (that might come out something like /tva'lEt/) but on the French
> orthography.
There's no /tv/ in German phonotactics.  /tsv/ maybe, but not /tv/.
(*'Zwalette' :-)).

It may have been /tu6lEt@/ (*'Turlette') as an intermediate step, but
my /o/ clearly comes from the French pronunciation.

**Henrik