• dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee
      142·
      11 个月前

      And the ‘S’. And to be fair, the ‘OU’ could have just been a ‘U’. Also, the ‘E’ could have been an ‘A’.

      Randevu.

      • rivvvver@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        11·
        11 个月前

        Randevu

        interestingly, thats what the turkish word for rendezvous is.

        in turkish, words are written exactly as theyre pronounced at all times.

        just a funny sidenote :3

      • current@lemmy.ml
        3·
        11 个月前

        In French, words spelled with just “u” use a different sound than those spelled with “ou”. “ou” (in la Métropole) is similar to the sound in English “do”/“too”/“sue”/“shoe” etc. while “u” is similar to Standard German long “ü”/“üh” like in “Lüge” but the German one is relatively reduced and isn’t quite as frontal/strained/constricted.

      • onion@feddit.de
        2·
        11 个月前

        ‘a’ is not pronounced like ‘en’ in french

        I think it could be spelled rendévou though

      • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
        21·
        11 个月前

        I’ll grant you the ‘s’ but it’s still more or less pronounced like it’s spelled. You can replace ‘ou’ with ‘u’ but it still sounds right with ‘ou’.

        English pronunciation in general is fucked up lol. You can never really tell how an ‘e’ or an ‘a’ will be voiced 🤣

      • Sludgeyy@lemmy.world
        12·
        11 个月前

        E should definitely be an A or even an O. Shouldn’t really have an E.

        Rän-di-vü

        TIL the pural for Rendezvous is Rendezvous. You just pronounce the S

    • MrBusiness@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      11 个月前

      Rendezvous isn’t even that bad. What really grabs my goat are the pronunciations for colonel and choir.