Yes, but once you learn how to pronounce every possible French syllable, you can stop learning.
It seems every pronunciation rule in English has 5,000 exceptions. There are no hard-and-fast rules in the English language. I mean "colonel"? What the heck were they thinking? |
Lexicographer John Walker is quoted in the "Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology", "colonel, this word is among those gross irregularities which must be given up as incorrigible".
LarryD |
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