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Ping-Pong virus edit

Hi, will you please not remove information from articles with the edit reason "what's the point?" This is an encyclopedia and must thus be complete and correct. Not listing the variants of such a virus would make it less complete. —msikma <user_talk:msikma> 05:51, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

French language

Hi, I'm not sure I agree with your changes. I don't see anything wrong with the example of pied-à-terre as it was before. Also, abbaye and pays can both be pronounced many ways. I think abbaye is a better example than pays because it also illustrates that the ending -aye is not necessarily pronounced [ɛj]. Here are two excerpts from the dictionary at [1].

• Prononc. ET ORTH. 1. Forme phon. : [abei]. GRÉG. 1923, BARBEAU-RHODE 1930 et Harrap's 1963, notent [ɛ] ouvert. Par ailleurs, PASSY 1914, GRÉG. 1923, BARBEAU-RHODE 1930 et Harrap's 1962 transcrivent le mot avec yod : [abeji]. Pour KAMM. 1964, p. 126, l'y gr. dans abbaye ,,se décompose en deux i dont le premier altère la voyelle précédente, le second gardant sa valeur propre (...). En pratique, se développe un léger yod avant le deuxième, i.`` Cf. aussi MART. Comment prononce 1913, p. 189-190, et ROUSS.-LACL. 1927, p. 152-153. D'apr. NYROP Phonét. 1963, § 186, la graph. ay se prononce [ei] ou [eji] dans pays, paysan, abbaye. Enq. : /abei/.
• Prononc. et Orth.: [pei], [pɛi]. LITTRÉ, DG, PASSY 1914, BARBEAU-RODHE 1930, WARN. 1968 ont un [j] de transition, le plus souvent en combinaison avec [ɛ]. Ainsi BARBEAU-RODHE 1930: [pei], [pɛji] et WARN. 1968: [pɛi], [pɛji] dans un ,,parler de ton soutenu``, [pei] dans le ,,parler courant``. PASSY 1914, en revanche, [pei], [peji]. MARTINON Comment prononce 1913, p.190, croit à la plus grande fréq. des prononc. sans [j]. Ac. 1694: pais, pays; dep.1718: pays. Joeldl 08:16, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

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