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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

The second pronunciation video

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4 comments:

  1. You made this a happy day, Professor McIntyre, by getting your videos posted here. I hope you'll be able to keep producing them periodically.

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  2. Interesting. I think you're wrong on niche and forte. But I'm English, so we have different rules: your pronounciation of both words is too far from the French to be really annoying to them. I think this is a major influence in British English.

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  3. Patrick K. LackeyOctober 22, 2009 3:56 PM

    Your videos are all hilarious. Surely you are at least a 23rd-generation aristocrat. Your choice of music is superb.

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  4. Bob O'H, the French do not pronounce the ‘e’ in “forte”. It's not “fortè” or “forté”. However, I would pronounce “niche” /nitʃ/ or /niʃ/, not /nɪtʃ/; and I'm very much an American.

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