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gottorf
7 months ago
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Why English doesn't use accents
French has much stricter rules, but I could see how the abundance of silent letters would make a spelling bee harder.
ralferoo
7 months ago
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French also has some weird gotchas, e.g. "la démocratie" where the spelling represents the word's root rather than pronunciation.
cm2187
7 months ago
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An even worse example is the last name "de Broglie", which I think most French natives would likely get wrong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k45IZDkg2Pg
gottorf
7 months ago
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Not nearly as bad as the English pronouncing, say, the name Cholmondeley :-)
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