Re: Mercury and lead

--- In cybalist@..., "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...> wrote:

>
> Torsten hm's the following hastefully:
> >Hm! But anyway...
> >French has lost its -s's,
>
> Wrong. To pronounce "les haricots" ("the green beans") properly,

you say

> /lez ariko/ because of élaison (definitely not */le ariko/, */les^

ariko/ or

> */lez^ ariko/). This is where Louisianians, being francophones cast

out of

> Acadia, get the name for their music - Zaideco. Zaideco, les

haricots, see

> the connection?
>
> Francophones don't use /s^/ unless they have a speech impedement or

speak a

> rare, hitherto unknown to me, dialect. Of course, there are no

doubt Sean

> Connery's in every language :)
>
> - gLeN
>
>

I recall seeing (in a Scientific American article on Pidgin and
Creole languages way back) French (Haitian?) Creole <zetwal> 'star',
the /z/ being generalized from the plural by false division of <lez
etwal>. That would explain the /z/ in the haricot too.

Torsten