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minus-squareChloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-219 hours agotbh, the n isn’t silent in french, it serves to make the /ɔ̃/ sound (it’s kind of a nasally O) with the “on” digraph (adressed at anyone reading) btw, does the /ɔ̃/ sound even exist in english? i can’t find any example of it…
minus-squarePeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·12 hours agoI mean, no letters are really silent, they affect the pronunciation of adjacent letters. I’d say you don’t pronounce the ‘n’ like an ‘n’, making it silentish, and it affects the adjacent ‘o’, giving it a more gutteral sound. Now if only I could roll an ‘r’ instead of gurgle it
minus-squarevithigar@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·14 hours agoThe way the quizzical “huh” is sometimes pronounced is close perhaps? I don’t know if I’d call that an English word though.
tbh, the n isn’t silent in french, it serves to make the /ɔ̃/ sound (it’s kind of a nasally O) with the “on” digraph
(adressed at anyone reading) btw, does the /ɔ̃/ sound even exist in english? i can’t find any example of it…
I mean, no letters are really silent, they affect the pronunciation of adjacent letters.
I’d say you don’t pronounce the ‘n’ like an ‘n’, making it silentish, and it affects the adjacent ‘o’, giving it a more gutteral sound.
Now if only I could roll an ‘r’ instead of gurgle it
handeare commonly silent in French.The way the quizzical “huh” is sometimes pronounced is close perhaps? I don’t know if I’d call that an English word though.