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• TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I can’t think of them off the top of my head but I studied French three years and remember there were plenty of exceptions to pronunciation rules. Here are some:

  theperfectfrench.com/…/irregular-plural-nouns/

  Scroll down to “Irregular Pronunciation of Plural Nouns”

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• FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ils mangent - intelligent

  Same four letters at the end, not the same pronunciation.

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  • Eq0@literature.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I would say, same prononciation different accent

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    • FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      … French is at least consistent in what is pronounced and what is not. …

      I would say you’re moving your own goalposts here.

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      • Eq0@literature.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I have been mulling it over since the previous post. I got taught that French was read-as-written and repeated it. But now, I realize there is more.

        Mangent is like rangent but not like gent - because mangent is a verb and is pronounced practically without the -nt. On the other hand intelligent is like gent, because it’s not a verb. The question is also obfuscated by nge being a different sound than ge and that intelligent and gent have the accent on the last syllable, while mangent and rangent have the accent on the one-to-last syllable.

        For a better example of the difference in pronunciation between verb and noun, mangent and tangent would be better and there is indeed a difference.

        Furthermore, (I think) tangent needs to have the accent on the last syllable because gent is a long sound here. While in mangent the last syllable is not long, therefore the accent recesses.

        My teachers lied to me and I blindly believed them. Sorry

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