Should I use the clue by four?

[pecunium]

In a conversation on the way things are pronounced someone argued that the terminal 'x' in french plurals is silent.

I, from my (at this point ancient) french made the observation:


> It isn't silent in French. It slightly clips the end, when it is the
> terminal word, and it elides into a 'z' sound when it abuts a vowel, a la
> "les bureaux acadamique" (which is probably crappy grammar, but shows the
> function).


Their reply was:

True enough, but on its own, it's silent:)

I am going to leave it lie there (though someone else did note that "silent e" (the genesis of the discussion) is, by my way of thinking, not really silent either.

Comments

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Yes. Fandom's love of word-play, and pedantry, and esoterica all combine to make such places in the web feel fairly fannish.

But there are levels of doggedness I'm just not going to engage in, outside an APA.

TK

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I misunderstood, and thought you were having a conversation with a fan.

K.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

No. But it does have a lot of that dynamic.

TK