Monday, 16 January 2012

Honi soit qui mal y pense

credit: www.garancedore.fr
A young female Erasmus student from France attends one of my phonetics classes. Last week, the young lady approached me at the end of the class to enquire about the number of assignments she had handed in already. I asked for her name to which she replied [I use a different name here]: "Paillard - /wɪð ə piː ət ðə bəɡɪnɪŋ/". Sorry for my one-tracked mind!
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4 comments:

  1. Alex Rotatori17 January 2012 at 08:36

    Petr,

    I think *"honi" is written with double 'n' in French: "honni".

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  2. Kevin18 January 2012 at 23:27

    But not in Anglo-French, as in the motto of the Order of the Garter.

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  3. Alex Rotatori19 January 2012 at 21:12

    @ Kevin: Thanks!

    Petr,

    My apologies! I didn't think of that! Sorry!

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  4. Kraut20 January 2012 at 07:53

    @Alex: No need for apologies!

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