But sometimes words in English have silent Zs like in the word “rendezvous”.
Comment on Mongolian. Like the barbecue.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I mean, it’s pronounced like it’s spelled except for the Z.
pancakes@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
MrBusiness@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Rendezvous isn’t even that bad. What really grabs my goat are the pronunciations for colonel and choir.
dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 8 months ago
And the ‘S’. And to be fair, the ‘OU’ could have just been a ‘U’.
Randevu.
rivvvver@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
interestingly, thats what the turkish word for rendezvous is.
in turkish, words are written exactly as theyre pronounced at all times.
just a funny sidenote :3
trolololol@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Oh they are so smart, just like I don’t know, most countries in the world that don’t prefer imperial units and imperial era spelling
(The sarcasm is not directed to turkish though 😁)
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Türk dilini sevmeye sebeplerin biri :)
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 8 months ago
How about Randaevoo ?
herrwoland@lemmy.world 8 months ago
How about randeuwu?
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 8 months ago
Now even that sounds correct.
Just how many different pronunciations doe this word have?
tkc@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Its not pronounced randevou though, more like ron-day-voo
aidan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Rondevu
current@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
In French words spelled with just “u” use a different sound than those spelled with “ou”
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I’ll grant you the ‘s’ but it’s still more or less pronounced like it’s spelled. You can replace ‘ou’ with ‘u’ but it still sounds right with ‘ou’.
English pronunciation in general is fucked up lol. You can never really tell how an ‘e’ or an ‘a’ will be voiced 🤣
onion@feddit.de 8 months ago
‘a’ is not pronounced like ‘en’ in french
I think it could be spelled rendévou though
Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
E should definitely be an A or even an O. Shouldn’t really have an E.
Rän-di-vü
TIL the pural for Rendezvous is Rendezvous. You just pronounce the S