[Sca-cooks] pronunciations

vongraph vongraph at earthlink.net
Tue Jun 25 10:53:45 PDT 2002


>
> The way I figure it, it's all because of the French, not the Americans nor
> Australians.
> The Semitic languages have a letter that represents both the sounds of S
and SH
> [or in French, S or CH].  The original transliterator opted for the
former.  In
> modern French, they usually silence the last letter, n'est-ce pas?  Et
voila!
>
> Selene, de Caid

Steering the subject back to food :) I agree many of the problems that exist
within the culenary world are directly atributable to the French. Not only
in language but in ingredients and methods of preperation.  Of cousre what
do you expect form a country that limits it vocabulary to 80,000 words.
Comments?

There that should make him happy:)

YIS, Elric





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