Re: French phonetics

From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 62751
Date: 2009-02-02

>> P.S. Why are "Chicago" and "Michigan" pronounced with [S]
>> rather than [tS]? Never understood those ones.

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I suppose French-speakers were there first
and write the names that way first.

This is not different from Detroit and Desmoines.

A.
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