I’ve always thought it was funny there is no “o” in “eaux”.
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Sirius006@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoAnd we are going to use the almost all the alphabet to make exactly one sound.
For instance eaux is pronounced o.
binarytobis@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sirius006@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
What do you mean ? IT IS obviously the o.
StillAlive@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
> Heard my friend is going to ‘Bordo’
> Look up Bordo
> Mfw it’s spelled Bordeaux
Sirius006@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I had the reverse problem when listening to the excellent “the fall of Rome” podcast. At some point, the american host starts to talk extensively about a city port in the South of France named something like “Awol”. I was confused, thinking “I lived close to the area he is describing for 3 years as a student, and never heard of that city. Maybe it’s like in Marseille where the port was re discovered in the 80s inland, many hundred meters from the sea.” After more than an hour of listening I realised he was simply saying “Arles” with an American accent. It is a very famous Roman city with beautiful ruins where I went several times, so I might just be dumb.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
Okay how the hell did they messed up the pronounce so much??
Sirius006@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I found it. It’s episode 7: the three transformations of Roman Gaul.
He starts to talk about it at minute 7.
Listening to it again he really struggles with this one, which is weird because I have otherwise no difficulty to understand him when he uses other French or Italian names.