Du jour Was Re: [Sca-cooks] RE: Sca-cooks digest, Vol 1 #2513 - 16 msgs

[Generys ferch Ednuyed]

Because "du" is technically "de le" which just doesn't sound right - so the
whole thing got smushed together - it's the masculine version of de la...

Generys who spent too many years taking french - and couldn't actually carry
on a conversation now...

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From: "Gorgeous Muiredach" <muiredach at bmee.net>
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Subject: Du jour Was Re: [Sca-cooks] RE: Sca-cooks digest, Vol 1 #2513 - 16
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>
>
> >Because it sounds really funny without the "de jour" after it?
>
> It should be du jour...  not de jour...  One of the most interesting quirk
> in French, that I have not figured out how to explain yet.  Of course, I
> could probably find it in my grammar and syntax school books of days past,
> but...
>
> Gorgeous Muiredach the Odd
> Clan of Odds
> Shire of Forth Castle, Meridies
> mka
> Nicolas Steenhout
> "You must deal with me as I think of myself" J. Hockenberry
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