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To: Para-Ord.45

gilets jaunes

How is it pronounced?
Sounds like/rhymes with.
Diacritical marking just makes my brain hurt, plus they change it all the time.

No need to sound like a Frenchman, close is OK.


18 posted on 01/21/2019 6:46:45 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

jee-lay ghone.

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21 posted on 01/21/2019 8:25:41 PM PST by Para-Ord.45 (Americans, happy in tutelage by the reflection that they have chosen their own dictators.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I’ll take a guess...I would pronounce it like Gillete razor blades...Jillet. And the other word for yellow, I’d pronounce Yonnay, So go with Jillet Yonnay...bet that is close.


22 posted on 01/21/2019 9:35:18 PM PST by kiltie65
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