Gerrit Holl wrote:
France is hard to govern, as De Gaulle did put it, because it has "as many kinds of cheese as days in the year". Way more than 246, that is.
The French say soixante-dix, quatre-vingt and quatre-vingt-dix The Belgians say septante, quatre-vingt and nonante The Swiss say septante, huitante and nonante, some even say octante. They are the only ones who got it straight. (And I am French)
What do the Québecois say?
They are the same as the French on this issue.
The worst way to write down a pronunciation is by trying to write it phonetically in English - you end up with pronunciations that are totally different from the way it is actually pronounced. My name is NOT pronounced "Gair-Rid Hole" - not even near (see [[en:User:Gerritholl]] for how it is), but I can't think of a closer approximation using this "phonetic transcription".
No phonetic transcription is ever satisfactory. Very young Swedish children may have never seen a phonetic transcription but they still get the pronunciation correctly. Most of us become so accustomed to our ways of pronunciation that we never investigate exactly how we move our tongus in the process. An early exposure to any second language helps to ease some of these problems.
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