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

[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