• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
        4·
        1 年前

        This is more like it

        We don’t say the N or the T

        • Canadian

        Mor re al is how I would write it but yours is probably better for pronouncing

      • ElectricVocalist@jlai.lu
        3·
        1 年前

        There are no rules for the names of places. Most places prefixed by “mont” will have a silent t, but I live near a place called Montrichard and the t must be pronounced

      • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        1 年前

        tbh, the n isn’t silent in french, it serves to make the /ɔ̃/ sound (it’s kind of a nasally O) with the “on” digraph

        (adressed at anyone reading) btw, does the /ɔ̃/ sound even exist in english? i can’t find any example of it…

        • vithigar@lemmy.ca
          3·
          1 年前

          The way the quizzical “huh” is sometimes pronounced is close perhaps? I don’t know if I’d call that an English word though.

        • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
          2·
          1 年前

          I mean, no letters are really silent, they affect the pronunciation of adjacent letters.

          I’d say you don’t pronounce the ‘n’ like an ‘n’, making it silentish, and it affects the adjacent ‘o’, giving it a more gutteral sound.

          Now if only I could roll an ‘r’ instead of gurgle it