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anyone know how this french name ends up pronounced "far-ve" in english? Just curious
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Re: favre into "far -ve"
Thu, February 1, 2007 - 9:47 PMi don't know...& i certainly wouldn't have pronounced it that way either! -
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Re: favre into "far -ve"
Wed, February 7, 2007 - 7:49 PMit's easy to guess how the american or english trained tongue would take "fah-vray," turn that into "far-vuh" and and then shorten the pronunciation to "farve."
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Re: favre into "far -ve"
Thu, April 26, 2007 - 7:58 PMi found this:
www.funtrivia.com/askft/Que...71876.html
im sure thats the reason....plus being from lousiana, the southern drawl transposed the "r" and "v" quite often. -
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Re: favre into "far -ve"
Fri, April 27, 2007 - 7:04 PMYeah, I grew up in Southern Louisiana...those Cajun folks are lost in many, many ways...not the least of which being linguistics.
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Re: favre into "far -ve"
Tue, May 1, 2007 - 9:11 PM
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Re: favre into "far -ve"
Wed, May 2, 2007 - 4:21 PMSounds like methatesis, er, sorry, metathesis to me.
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