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Rambling | Report | 2 Feb 2018 11:39 |
One word ( though there are others just as confusing) |
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Allan | Report | 2 Feb 2018 11:37 |
Rollo, I'm English and even I can't get English straight. Being from Lancashire, there are many differences in pronunciation for the same words compared to other areas of the UK |
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Rambling | Report | 2 Feb 2018 11:31 |
I have heard both versions, though not in France. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 2 Feb 2018 11:10 |
The Australians of course cannot get English straight let alone make a stab at French. In a land where the cultural icons are Ned Kelly, Rolf Harris and soap TV stars not too much should be expected. Deep Water. |
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Allan | Report | 2 Feb 2018 10:57 |
Bang on cue, or should that be Kew? |
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Sharron | Report | 2 Feb 2018 10:46 |
I just wish Halnaker would get a mention more often! |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 2 Feb 2018 10:35 |
French Canada French grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation are a lot different to modern metropolitan French. The River Seine is currently in flood. "Seine" is pronounced as the "sen" part of send, sentry etc NOT as in "sane pain train etc.". Although it is a single flat word do not over shorten it. |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 2 Feb 2018 09:32 |
Ah, but the pronunciation from someone raised in say Paris, could be different from a person from Avignon. ;-) :-D |
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AnninGlos | Report | 2 Feb 2018 09:29 |
cue Rollo |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 2 Feb 2018 09:21 |
Internet searches give 2 suggestions. Sen & Sehen. |
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Dermot | Report | 2 Feb 2018 06:59 |
It's not easy to get everything spot-on in our monolingual nation. |
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Hilary | Report | 2 Feb 2018 06:16 |
We live in Cambridgeshire & the broadcasters always call our river The Nen, it is never called that by the locals, always called The Neen (our way of saying it), proper spelling is The Nene. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 2 Feb 2018 02:57 |
Our newscasters are supposed to pronounce place names as the locals do .............. which is why OH and I both noticed this sudden change to "Sen". |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 2 Feb 2018 01:36 |
Here in south east, we have historic towns known collectively as Cinque Ports. |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 2 Feb 2018 01:10 |
There’s a tendency for broadcasters to try to pronounce places names as the locals do. If I’d noticed UK newsreaders saying Sen, I’d probably assume they’d swallowed the consonants. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 2 Feb 2018 01:01 |
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