My mother used to jokingly call them Donkeys d’ Unders

She also told me when I was little that RSVP meant Remember Send Vedding Present!

Author: Janet Carr

Fashion, beauty and animal loving language consultant from South Africa living in Stockholm, Sweden.

2 thoughts

  1. Luckily we don’t pronounce all the letters in a word contary to Spanish, Italian or Portuguese to name a few. For instance, the T, S and R are generaly silent.
    Only non French speakers try to pronouce every letter in a word which make it impossible to understand.

  2. I give beginner French classes and this is basically the first lesson: write ten letters, pronounce one!

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