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		ralferoo 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why English doesn't use accents French also has some weird gotchas, e.g. "la démocratie" where the spelling represents the word's root rather than pronunciation.

cm2187 7 months ago [–]

An even worse example is the last name "de Broglie", which I think most French natives would likely get wrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k45IZDkg2Pg

gottorf 7 months ago | [–]

Not nearly as bad as the English pronouncing, say, the name Cholmondeley :-)

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