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Hmm I always thought French and other European languages didn’t follow English phonology. Let me explain. I think the words eat and it differ in English so let’s say you’re speaking Spanish and you want to say “pan”. I’ve heard Americans say they wondered if saying it like the English pan were correct. Upon finding out that the ae sound in pan doesn’t exist in Spanish they switched over to pahhhhn. I was like but those languages don’t have those phonology rules English has. To me being Greek but with an Australian mother and speaking some French ( yes I’m familiar with the “ons” (garçons) and the “in” sound (as in matin) etc.) Italian (but Italian has drawn out and short sounds) and Greek, I find English to be very messy phonetically speaking and sometimes even unphonetic. The way I’d say Yvelise would depend but I’m leaning towards iv not eve because I know one can say iv on when pronouncing Yvonne. My point is in English this is it’s not doing much justice to the French vocalic y sound.

This message was edited 5/17/2024, 9:36 AM