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Originally Posted by ATDrake
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. |
That is correct! Basically, you run two words together and make one of it when you pronounce it. I had forgotten that when I stated the rule. But, I would have done it without really thinking about it for some applicable word pairs, ones that got drilled in in French courses. I didn't know that there were differences among French speakers in which ones got liaised or not. But it's not surprising. I suppose that it varies by region.