Re: NATLANG: French spelling questions

At 16:28 29.2.2004, Philippe Caquant wrote:
>Damned, I also spoke too fast. I forgot of *suggerer*
>(e acute on the 1st e), *suggestion*, etc.
>
>If you cut that word into syllables, it will be:
>*sug-ge-rer*, from Latin *sug-gerere*, probably a
>deformation of *sub-gerere*. So in fact, there is no
>special pronunciation for *gg* in French, as each g
>belongs to a different syllable. Before e and i, g is
>normally pronounced like *zh*.
You mean these words actually have /gZ/,
are pronounced /sygZere/ /sygZestio~/?

/BP 8^)
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