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French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language.It is based on a combination of phonemic and historical principles. The spelling of words is largely based on the pronunciation of Old French c. 1100 –1200 AD, and has stayed more or less the same since then, despite enormous changes to the pronunciation of the language in the intervening years.
For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation § Entering IPA characters. French has no word-level stress so stress marks should not be used in transcribing French words. See French phonology and French orthography for a more thorough look at the sounds of French.
French phonology is the sound system of French.This article discusses mainly the phonology of all the varieties of Standard French.Notable phonological features include the uvular r present in some accents, nasal vowels, and three processes affecting word-final sounds:
French pronunciation: [ɛɡzɑ̃pl] Without the label: {{IPA|fr|ɛɡzɑ̃pl|}} yields: [ɛɡzɑ̃pl] If the first parameter is an IETF language tag and the second a transcription, as in the above, {} automatically provides a label and, if a dedicated key for the language exists, links the transcription to the key.
out of the ordinary, unusual. In French, it means outraged (for a person) or exaggerated, extravagant, overdone (for a thing, esp. a praise, an actor's style of acting, etc.); in that second meaning, belongs to "literary" style. passé out of fashion. The correct expression in French is passé de mode. Passé means past, passed, or (for a ...
A spelling pronunciation is the pronunciation of a word according to its spelling when this differs from a longstanding standard or traditional pronunciation. Words that are spelled with letters that were never pronounced or that were not pronounced for many generations or even hundreds of years have increasingly been pronounced as written, especially since the arrival of mandatory schooling ...
The correct way to say the French town includes dropping, well, basically everything: The "c" in the beginning turns into a "k" and the "s" at the end is silent. Some say that "a" becomes an "e ...
- I find the sound in book more similar to the French o than story which resembles /ɔ̃/ in French - lab in British English is pronounced /a/ rather than /æ/, hence would be a better example than trap - the sound in mace (/ɛ/) in BE just isn't the same as in clé (/e/) - monsieur & faisons resembles /ø/ rather than /ə/ Couiros22 18:40, 5 September 2023 (UTC) []