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spellchick
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 Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 8:35 pm Post subject: There is no "H" in Clotilde |
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| (Just a heads-up from this reader and fan.) |
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Deni
Joined: 25 Jul 2006
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Location: Kona, Hawaii
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| Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 4:00 am Post subject: |
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Sorry about that Clotilde...
I am at 8367 ft. above sea level in Teton Village, Jackson Hole Wyoming.
Must be the elevation, or perhaps the Christmas cheer.
Apres ski anyone.
Joyeux Noël
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spellchick
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| Posted: Mon Dec 25, 2006 6:17 am Post subject: |
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Deni I did not mean to single you out--many many people have added that pesky "h". I want always to say, yes, there's an h in chocolate, and an h in zucchini, but now you must stop!
(Of course Clotilde is too nice to correct us.) |
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spellchick
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 2:46 am Post subject: |
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| How is "Clotilde" pronounced in French? klo-teel with a silent "d" ? |
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Alison
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 4:41 am Post subject: |
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| spellchick wrote: | | How is "Clotilde" pronounced in French? klo-teel with a silent "d" ? |
Clo-teel-de
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Griffin
Joined: 09 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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... or That's MY chocolate! ... or possibly, Come back with the cake! ... er, or is that just me that get's called that?
Clotilde is pronounced Clo til de... simple as that. Tho' in nature she is clearly far from simple... pronounced si m ple.
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emilyj
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| Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 3:32 am Post subject: |
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I'm glad someone else wondered that too! After watching the clip from the Today show I was thinking 'I never knew that was how you pronounced her name- wow I'm such a philistine!' turns out that it was the Today presenter who was wrong and I was right all along  |
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richardab
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| Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 3:40 am Post subject: |
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| emilyj wrote: | | I'm glad someone else wondered that too! After watching the clip from the Today show I was thinking 'I never knew that was how you pronounced her name- wow I'm such a philistine!' turns out that it was the Today presenter who was wrong and I was right all along |
I think they said it right on the Today show. Ann Curry is fluent in French.
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Judy
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