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Dear belMarduk: To reverse, how do French speakers pronounce "Queen"?
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People rely on a dictionary to be accurate...
... and the dictionaries have abdicated. That's a big part of the problem. Dictionaries now mostly consider themselves to be not prescriptive but descriptive - listing not what is correct but rather what well-known people say. Authorities like Ethel Merman. And Art Linkletter. Webster's Third - way back in the 1960's - cited both of them, and also gave "uninterested" as one of the meanings of "disinterested."
Things haven't improved much since, as you see.
Scrabble player's lament: "Whom are you going to believe - me or some strange dictionary?"
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how do French speakers pronounce "Queen"?
Renn
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Dear Faldage: Go jump in the Senn. And no fair having a barge full of hay to land in, like Buridan.
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a barge full of hay to land in, like Buridan
Would that be the one his ass didn't eat?
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Sparteye: How do you pronounce it [“postman”], everybody?Keiva: I pronounce it "mailman".Max: Wow, you pronounce "postman" as "mailman" and USns have the cheek to claim about British pronunciation?-------------------------------- wwh: how do French speakers pronounce "Queen"?Faldage: Renn================== ROFL. Sorry, Max. Sorry I started it. 
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Yep, and after he had exhausted his seminal vesicles and prostate servicing the Queen, she had him put in a sack and thrown into the river. But he had soft landing prepared by some of his fellow students, and survived to brag about it, and invent the famous ass. Remember "ou sont les neiges d'antan?"
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ou sont les neiges d'antan?
I allus remembered it as ou sont les neigedens d'antan Parm my french, E.
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O est la trs sage Hellos,
Pour qui fut chastr, puis moyne
Pierre Espaillart a Saint Denis?
Pour son amour ot cest essoyne.
Semblablement ou est la royne
Qui commanda que Buridan
Fust gecte en ung sac en Saine?
Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan?
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Youn me's reading different books, Dr. Bill.
I got mine from Catch-22.
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