When English is your only language and you can’t even get that right, maybe who’s running for mayor shouldn’t be your biggest concern. Try mastering your ABCs first and then we can move beyond sesame street level issues.
When English is your only language and you can’t even get that right, maybe who’s running for mayor shouldn’t be your biggest concern. Try mastering your ABCs first and then we can move beyond sesame street level issues.
Can’t forget about the famous US football player Brett Faarv.
USians are illiterate.
That’s completely normal based on how French allows syllables to be structured compared to English. In French, the name is one syllable, /favʁ/, with the /ʁ/ on the outside of the syllable. That is really unusual across languages, and English doesn’t allow it. It’s even kind of weird in French, and when a word starting with a vowel comes after words that are structured like this, the /ʁ/ actually gets shunted over to start the next syllable so that “Favre est” is really more like “Fav rest”. English speakers have a few options to fall back on if they’re trying to pronounce the name according to English syllable structure, because they are overwhelmingly not going to keep the original French structure intact. They can:
All of these are common strategies in borrowing loanwords across different languages.
Very interesting, thanks for your explaination.