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Unread 11-05-2010, 02:28 AM
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We Brits, Julie, like French pronunciation fine when we are speaking French, but like the French when they are borrowing English words (e.g. marketing, taxi) we like to naturalise them, as it were. The thing in the sky is a Barrij balloon, and the house for my car is a garrij. I have to admit that the Scots say them as you do. Must be something to do with the Auld Alliance.
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