On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:18:02 +0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

>>> Yes, but would an Englishman know?
>> 
>> No and it is considered pretentious to pronounce French words, that are used in
>> English, as they are pronounced in France. For instance Paris is not "Paree",
>> filet is fill-et etc.
>
>One thing I discovered while in Switzerland: You have to say French 
>words with an actual French accent, or people don't know WTF you're saying.
>

Never :)

>Yeah, I know, it sounds obvious. But the number of English people who 
>think it's "bon-jor" when in fact what I heard the people there utterly 
>sounded nothing like that...

Oh reservoir.
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Regards
     Stephen

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