From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 62205
Date: 2008-12-20
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From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
I guess those of who learned French at the School of Stratford at the Bowe
learned that bonne was pronounced as English "bun" --which is how it's
taught in countries where the French of Paris they do not know.
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I suppose non-American speakers of English can equate bonne with Bonn(ie)
but this is something Americans cannot do because bonn(ie) has /a/ as in
car.
If you start with bone and remove the W in boWne and keep the rest
I think it's closer than bun.
What do you equate donne (give) with ?
I wonder what people would understand if you replace the phoneme /o/ with
that of bun.
It's worth trying. for the "fonne" of it.
A.