Walt Mankowski on 11 Aug 2004 21:00:03 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] update strategies/partition issue 

On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 03:40:07PM -0400, Dan Widyono wrote:
> P.S.  I believe it's vis-a-vis, and the last s is silent in French.

Correct.  It literally means "face to face" in French.  "Vis" is
normally pronounced like "vee" in English, unless it's followed by a
word that begins with a vowel.  Then the ordinarily silent consonant
is added to the beginning of the following word, ending up with
something like "vee-zah-vee".  (Linguists call this a "liaison".)

> Crazy language, eh wot? :)

Not nearly as crazy as English. :)

Walt

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