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kalenxtoday at 5:06 PM2 repliesview on HN

You pronounce "fête" as "féte" (basically, equivalent to the English "faith" without the "h" sound at the end)? To my hear these two sound very different.


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dadoumtoday at 5:41 PM

> "féte" (basically, equivalent to the English "faith" without the "h" sound at the end)

Not GP but I want to note that the pronounciation of "faith" would never occur in metropolitan French, as it features a diphthong. And in Quebec fête has a diphthong but féte would not have one I think (please correct me if I am wrong), and it is not the one in faith anyway.

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kergonathtoday at 5:07 PM

> You pronounce "fête" as "féte"?

No, they don’t.

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