SC - Storebought kraut - OOP
lilinah@earthlink.net
lilinah at earthlink.net
Sat Feb 3 00:23:05 PST 2001
Audrey wrote:
>Actually...
>Hors-d'oeuvre is the right spelling (dictionary says
>so... French is my first language, by the way)
>And plural is hors-d'oeuvre also
>*Without* a final 's' (same form singular and plural)
>And with a '-' between both words.
I have no doubt you are correct. But in American English the plural
includes an "s". You can eat one hors-d'oeuvre off of a plate of
hors-d'oeuvres. In America, we kinda pronounce on as "or derv" and a
plateful as "or dervs".
Anahita,
cringing slightly at how she just butchered some lovely French.
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