[ATM] RE: ATM Digest, Vol 2, Issue 36

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Rapha?l

I am a Brit who lived in France for 3 years and I asked a number of
Frenchmen to pronounce Texereau - the common pronunciation was totally
unknown in my English and was a cross between Tex..a...ro as you
describe and Tesh ..a..ro.  Something of a mixture of a softer "x" and a
harder "sh".

Does that make any sense?

Adam

> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 09:53:23 +0100
> From: Rapha?l Guinamard <rguinamard@infonie.fr>
> Subject: Re: [ATM] NEW LIST--Old Names, New names
> To: "Atm (E-mail)" <atm@atmlist.net>
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> I'm french, I think I will help!.
> It's quite difficult to write in phonetic english how we spell those
> names.
> Nick is completely right
> FOUCAULT  "foo-coe" . In the ATM community, we even have a verb
> "foucaulter", which means testing your mirror with the faucoult test
> 'kreh-TCHIEN'
> Chris is right saying TEXEREAU  'Tex.. a .. roa', but the roa not like
a
> road, but more like a rope
> COUDER     (coo..dare)
> bye
> Rapha?l Guinamard