Us military slaves put the accent on the first syllabil. Loo-(as in the name Louis)-ten-ant.
Us military slaves put the accent on the first syllabil. Loo-(as in the name Louis)-ten-ant.
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My lack of experience doesn't allow me to argue against that, but whenever I say the word in casual speech the second syllable seems to be most stressed to me. I'll believe you, though.
Anyways, let's go spam the Pope thread now.
After reflecting on that, I notice that I do too. I never noticed much though cause more people do it the way I posted. I guess both are used when necessary but most of the time we just say L-T.
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*ejects Eest into the pit of Doom*Originally Posted by eestlinc
About the Lieutenant thing, the French pronunciation stresses on the first syllab, since, more often than not, the second syllab is told to get lost and vanishes. Which gives, for you silly English speaking people something non writable using English sounds. [] is right, though.
And then there is Death
Big D has the best sig ever now. xD
I'm glad this thread has turned into a nice spam thread.
No, really.
Why wasn't this just closed and forgotten?
'And then, the valient Sir Yamaneko appears over the hills, to see his beloved castle and home being spammed and overruned with wild bums and poor people! He does what any other Cid's Knight does...'
And passes the buck to someone else. :o
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