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I'm fucking losing it over this bit about French words

HOW DO YOU PRONOUNCE OISEAUX

IS THE X SILENT? I FEEL LIKE THE X SHOULD BE SILENT.

the part where he got to reverse vampires

I remember... I think it was on Tumblr, reading about a guy name Hugh who went to France on vacation and no one could pronounce his name cuz all those letters are generally silent in French

YEP

French is a trap.

Kayskringle : It's pronounced Wahzo btw

Vowels out the wazo.

I'm gonna be the WELL AKSHUALLY guy XD We DO learn in 1st grade that "oi" is always pronounced "wah" and "eau" is always pronounced "o", that an "s" between two vowels is pronounced "z", and that the plural marker ("s" or more rarely "x") is always silent. So yeah. "Oiseaux" is an easy word even if it looks like someone dropped alphabet soup on the ground.

English can't really mock French for random spelling imo

oh and "eau" is a syllable that's pronounced "o" but it's ALSO the word for "water"

k'now

just for fun

and "oi" is a syllable but "oie" ("e" is silent) is the word for "goose"

I'll see myself out

I only guessed that the X is silent because my grandparents used to live in Sioux City.