At 21:11 -0500 2002-01-23, Patrick Andries wrote:
In the first edition of this dictionary it was said that in many
compounds whose second element begins with h the h is silent unless
the accent falls on the syllable that it begins; thus philhellenic
and philharmonic should not sound the h; in
Yves Arrouye wrote:
France's Académie française is good at that: they recently invented cédérom
(CD-ROM; gets used because it's quite okay), and mèl (mail, for e-mail;
nobody uses it except to make fun of it).
Mél (which I oppose) was never proposed as a word but as an
abbreviation for
http://www.culture.fr/culture/dglf/dispositif-enrichissement.htm
http://www.culture.fr/culture/dglf/dispositif-enrichissement.htm
Thanks for the pointer. Though I can't fine the exact sentence re: the
substantive use I found mél referred to as a symbol for messagerie
électronique. I like
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