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What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
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March 28, 2025 at 7:21 pm
(March 28, 2025 at 5:48 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Apparently, at least in the Francophone world, The name "Claude" is supposed to rhyme with "Toad."

More at ‘cloud’.

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March 28, 2025 at 7:56 pm
(March 28, 2025 at 7:21 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(March 28, 2025 at 5:48 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Apparently, at least in the Francophone world, The name "Claude" is supposed to rhyme with "Toad."

More at ‘cloud’.

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That's probably more Germanic.
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March 28, 2025 at 9:42 pm
My problem with angle and angel have been exposed.
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March 29, 2025 at 4:15 am
(March 28, 2025 at 7:56 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:
(March 28, 2025 at 7:21 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: More at ‘cloud’.

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That's probably more Germanic.

It's more Latin. The 'Clawed' pronunciation is the Germanic one.

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March 29, 2025 at 5:44 am
All I know is that there’s some guy on Degrassi named Claude everyone’s calling Clode, so, knowing this is a strange pronunciation even by the standards of Canada, so I look up the pronunciation, and find out that, apparently, in the French-speaking world, it’s pronounced (and the orthography is purely from the IPA) klod, but in the English speaking world (except for Australia and evidently Canada), it’s pronounced klɔd.




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March 29, 2025 at 7:00 am
^I took several units of Roman history at uni, and one of my professors had an absolute obsession with the Emperor Claudius. Any time a student pronounced it ‘Clawdius’, he’d go absolutely spare and launch into the explanation I just gave.

I guess it stuck with me. Smile

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March 29, 2025 at 10:25 am
Looking through Wiktionary, it looks like the pronunciation you championed is more used with Romance languages and their associated countries. And, of course, neither English nor French are Romance languages.
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March 29, 2025 at 11:24 am
(March 29, 2025 at 10:25 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: Looking through Wiktionary, it looks like the pronunciation you championed is more used with Romance languages and their associated countries. And, of course, neither English nor French are Romance languages.

French is a Romance language. English is in the Germanic family.

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March 29, 2025 at 1:53 pm
My mistake there, I was probably thinking of languages closer to Latin, like Spanish and Italian, which do retain the Cloud pronunciation,
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March 29, 2025 at 8:44 pm
There's a tampon test for endometrial cancer. Makes sense.
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