Tuesday, April 28, 2020

 

French Pronunciation

Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939), A Mirror to France (New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1926), p. 113:
My French I had from my grandfather who, born in Calais and passing the whole of his youth and early manhood in France, knew French better than English, which indeed he never learned to spell correctly. But he insisted characteristically that although one must know French with accuracy one must speak it with a marked English accent to show that one is an English gentleman. I still do.



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