Come Again?

[Krikit 1,163]

It's french. lol

[Reba 2]

Yeap, it is a French word. And again, goes back to that whole teaching the langauage as phonetic, when it really is not.

There's a few NASCAR driver's with French last names that have been Americanized and it sometimes hurts my brain to try and figure out how they came up with these pronunciations. Naydew comes to mind. His last name is spelled Nadeau though.

There's a town down the road from here called Lenore. Spelled Lenoir.

I called the fawcet a tap at work one day, and maintenance didn't know what I was talking about. It was dripping for like 6 months and no one bothered to tell him, so I mentioned it to him, and he said "what's a tap?"

[Krikit 1,163]

Yeap, it is a French word. And again, goes back to that whole teaching the langauage as phonetic, when it really is not.

There's a few NASCAR driver's with French last names that have been Americanized and it sometimes hurts my brain to try and figure out how they came up with these pronunciations. Naydew comes to mind. His last name is spelled Nadeau though.

There's a town down the road from here called Lenore. Spelled Lenoir.

I called the fawcet a tap at work one day, and maintenance didn't know what I was talking about. It was dripping for like 6 months and no one bothered to tell him, so I mentioned it to him, and he said "what's a tap?"

My mother-in-law has a constant perplexed look on her face whenever I speak to her because she can't understand what I'm saying. After four years of this I have taken to speaking with her as little as possible, unless my husband is around to translate. Too hard on the nerves.

Speaking of pronunciations..... I was watching Dinner and a Movie last night and the chef was making a dish he called Ménage à Trois. Only they had spelled it Menage et Trois on the TV screen.

Oh, and in my husband's hometown there is a main road called Benvenue Road. I'm sure its origin was bien venue. LOL

[Reba 2]

Yeah, I have yet to figure out why they pronounce "le" as "les". Or why they bother to try to pronounce French at all. Why not just use the English translation?

I hate "in rowt" for "en route". How 'bout just "I'm on my way!"