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I question the pronunciation given. I have a clear recollection of French "puis" being pronounced "pwee".
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Guess it depends on whether you want to pronounce it in French or English. AHD4 offers both. M-W adds a third, im-'pyü-&- s&n(t)s
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AHD prefers this pronunciation, but has both. MWCD has it the other way 'round.
im-pyoo'-i-snse, im-pwis'-snse
wouldn't the French make it im-pwee-sance' ?
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Where are velMarduk and Rouspeteur when we need them?
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wouldn't the French make it im-pwee-sance' ?
Am-pwee-sance, as we were taught it.
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Oh, OK. Pseudo-French. Whadda buncha nit pickers.
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Dear Faldage: having learned it right, must we bow, and ape the idiots who merely guessed at the pronunciation?
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bow, and ape the idiots
Ic nat þe þu secgest.
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It would be more like em-pwee-sahns in Canadian French (first letter like the 'e' in 'get', Kiwis excluded). There's a difference from French French in the nasal vowels before m's and n's. I just figured this out recently. You say Moulin as Moo-lawn, we would say Moo-len, sort of. (I noticed it when I kept hearing people say the name of the movie Moulin Rouge). I've been studying the French channels (French Canadian and French French) to confirm my suspicion, and I think I'm right. 'Twould be nice to hear from a real Canadian Francophone to confirm, though.
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>(first letter like the 'e' in 'get', Kiwis excluded).
'Tis always thus - my poor sammarinese friend, who is learning English, has a dreadful time translating our vowels into those he was taught as being standard English.
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Don't worry, they'll all learn eventually. We must just have patience ...
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Then there is "suite".
suite - usually pronounced "sweet" but pronounced "soot" by some.
n.
5Fr: see SUIT6
1 a group of attendants or servants; train; retinue; staff
2 a set or series of related things; specif., a) a group of connected rooms used as a unit, such as an apartment b) a set of pieces of matched furniture for a given room !a
Then there is "pursuit" My dictionary does not say so, but
it seems possible it is related to French "poursuivre"
I confess to mocking a boyhood friend who pronounced it
"perswit". So many traps for the consistent.
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poursuivreany relation to "persevere"? doesn't really look it in m-w, but seems interesting enough to comment... 
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Dear etaoin: sounds related, I have no idea how close, or how to check it. My dictionary goes back to Latin perseverus = very severe
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AHD3 traces pursuit to Anglo-Norman so I guess we don't have to expect it to be all that close to any orthodox French relatives. My French dictionary (Larousse) list poursuivre in the same entry as poursuite and defines it as to pursue; to seek; to annoy, to beset… Sounds like, if not proof of realtion, at least confirmatory evidence.
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suivre in french is the same as in Italian seguire = to follow.
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and now we can segue to another subject, it will follow this....
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Thanks for the second opinion, Emanuela. It kinda cuts off the severus connection.
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Which reminds me of "pursuivant"
pursuivant
n.
5ME pursevante < OFr poursuivant, prp. of poursuivre < poursuir: see PURSUE6
1 in the British Heralds‘ College, an officer ranking below a herald
2 a follower; attendant
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ok. I'm confused. can someone clarify what's been found so far? here's what I think I'm reading: the dictionaries don't show any connection between persevere and poursuivre, but yet there seems to be. sorry for my ignorance... 
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don't show any connection between persevere and poursuivre, but yet there seems to be.
Right and wrong respectively. Any connection between -severe and -suivre is purely coincidental.
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ah. knew I was confused. thanks! glad I stuck with it...
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