On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 03:05:26PM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote:
>
> Alas this is only partially true. Well, perhaps it is due to my use of
> both english and french all the time, but I have a tendency to mess up
> the "s" in french too. The "s" rule are 90% opposed in french and
> english.
Really? True in French, the final s is rarely pronounced, but how
often do the plural forms differ for similar words in each language?
The few words that come to mind for me are exceptional:
eg animal -> animaux in French; animal -> animals in English
Cheers
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