Is it "je harcèle" or "je harcelle". Bescherelle says the former. Le
Petit Grevisse says the latter. Strange!!
Another nice one: how'd you conjugate carreler? And pronounce it?
(My French-speaking entrepreneur insists on saying /je carle/ but that
sounds funny to my Flemish ears ...as does any other possibility:-)
Re: Worst European attractions ... about Tenerife- though you could argue it has an English pronunciation... As if many Brits could pronounce it correctly in French!... Like saying "Firenze", you mean? ... (rec.travel.europe)
Re: Paul F**king Robinson ... my father gave me a right ruckin'!" ... I'm saying nothing...its as if he starts off with the ... If you pronounce a soft 'e' like that, ...frickin or their variants outside your home region. ... (uk.media.tv.misc)
Re: Wildly OT Evelyn Waugh pronunciation ... answer such a question as you now put it would be required to survey the entire population worldwide (you don't specify any limits) which has pronounced Waugh, record all versions and the numbers speaking each, and then pick the biggest number. ... Would one person saying the name one way 100 times count as 'more often' than 50 people all saying it the same way once? ... That enables me to answer the questions posed by other family members when viewing trees and they ask "How do you pronounce that?" ... You really are a very sad individual, waiting to pounce on any perceived inadequacies of others. ... (soc.genealogy.britain)
Re: An historical week ... I think posh people used not to pronounce those "h"s, ...saying "an hotel" etc.. ...Socially ambitious oiks tried to sound posher ... (alt.usage.english)
Re: non-phonetic english spelling ... and <mer>, respectively? ... then you seem to be saying you ...pronounce the sentence in question as: ... very, very strange to me. ... (sci.lang)
