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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
I just realized that I've been pronouncing it wrong all of these years! I've been pronouncing the "t," but in French if the word ends in a consonant, it is not pronounced.
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Just to make things more fun, there is a language feature* called
liaison where the normally-silent final consonants are indeed pronounced, if the following word in a phrase or combination starts with a vowel. So if you had been ordering, say, "un croissant et une tasse de café", you'd have been reasonably correct† in pronouncing the "t".
* It's a feature, not a bug!
† There's a certain amount of dialectal variation in what gets liaised or not and where.