SC - spelling please
Audrey Bergeron-Morin
audreybmorin at yahoo.com
Sun Feb 4 10:14:42 PST 2001
- --- lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:
> 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.
>
You know what? You're right. My English dictionary
tells me that it takes a 's' in English in plural
form. Go figure. :-))
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