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Topic	Words that aren't spelled at all like they sound.
sfcalimari 03/13/24 5:06:46 AM #53:	ai123 posted... The British pronounce a lot of French words wrong. I think it's done deliberately to piss them off Beauchamp really annoys me. It's an easy French pronunciation, it's spelled correctly like it would be in French instead of butchered like a lot of loan words, yet some Brits hundreds of years ago decided it should be said "beecham." --- "Tether even a roasted chicken." - Yamamoto Tsunetomo <cite>sfcalimari posted [p:979341802] in Words that... [t:80719598]...</cite> <quote>ai123 posted... </cite><quote>The British pronounce a lot of French words wrong.I think it's done deliberately to piss them off</quote>Beauchamp really annoys me. It's an easy French pronunciation, it's spelled correctly like it would be in French instead of butchered like a lot of loan words, yet some Brits hundreds of years ago decided it should be said "beecham." --- "Tether even a roasted chicken."- Yamamoto Tsunetomo</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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