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To: Myrddin
Maybe the French/English dictionary was printed in China and the French word really meant "broke."

I have foreign-language dictionaries which take the pronounciation of southern England as standard so tell the foreigners using the dictionary that an "r" at the end of a word is silent.

146 posted on 04/03/2010 8:32:47 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus
I've noticed the Fox News reporter Alister Wanklin can't pronounce works that end in a vowel without appending an "r". Certain parts of the US have that linguistic pattern too.
149 posted on 04/03/2010 10:58:00 AM PDT by Myrddin
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