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

[Phlip]

Muiredach skrev:

> >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...

Because "jour", day, is masculine. If it were feminine, it would be de la
jour.

"Du" is a contraction of "de" and "le", "de" being the preposition "of" and
"le" being the masculine article, "the".

Phlip