[Magdalen] Charleston Receipt.

[Scott Knitter]

No, those words you listed would be pronounced in the English way (first
syllable accented; no French long vowel in second syllable).

In the case of "homage," it would usually be pronounced HOM-ij (or some
insist on OM-ij), but the French pronunciation would show up when the word
is used in the context of the arts, I'd think: "Smedley's latest oeuvre is
an homage to the Omaha school of barn design," or something. :)    oh-MAHzh.

I noticed "FILL-it-ed" in an NHK "Begin Japanology" episode on how eels are
used in Japanese cuisine. We'd say fih-LAID.

That's why one of our crap fast-food chains is called Chik-Fil-A.

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Simon Kershaw <simon at kershaw.org.uk> wrote:

>
> But do Americans prounced other -age words in the same way? Dotage,
> footage (cue image of newsreader saying "here's some f'tahzh of the
> incident"), plumage, cottage etc? Surely not?
>
> Another one that always strike us as odd is American prounciation of
> "fillet" (as in "fillet steak") as fee-lay, when "fillut" is the way we
> say it.
>
>
> --
> Simon Kershaw
> simon at kershaw.org.uk
> Saint Ives, Cambridgeshire
>
>


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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA