• Mubelotix@jlai.lu
        3·
        2 days ago

        There are no rules for the names of places. Most places prefixed by “mont” will have a silent t, but I live near a place called Montrichard and the t must be pronounced

      • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
        4·
        2 days ago

        This is more like it

        We don’t say the N or the T

        • Canadian

        Mor re al is how I would write it but yours is probably better for pronouncing

      • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        tbh, the n isn’t silent in french, it serves to make the /ɔ̃/ sound (it’s kind of a nasally O) with the “on” digraph

        (adressed at anyone reading) btw, does the /ɔ̃/ sound even exist in english? i can’t find any example of it…

        • vithigar@lemmy.ca
          3·
          2 days ago

          The way the quizzical “huh” is sometimes pronounced is close perhaps? I don’t know if I’d call that an English word though.

        • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
          2·
          1 day ago

          I mean, no letters are really silent, they affect the pronunciation of adjacent letters.

          I’d say you don’t pronounce the ‘n’ like an ‘n’, making it silentish, and it affects the adjacent ‘o’, giving it a more gutteral sound.

          Now if only I could roll an ‘r’ instead of gurgle it