The Gratuitous Additional Languages Thread

[anteallach]

A French friend had his non-Francophone English girlfriend over to dinner with his parents. The family conversation turned to the Tour de France. The friend leaned over to his girlfriend and dutifully translated “Tour de France” [in an English accent].

To "Tour of France"?

No, he literally said “Tour de France”, but in an English accent.

This seems to me to be what the event is usually called in British English: it's definitely "de France", not "of France", but the words are pronounced as in English rather than as approximations to the French: [tɔːdəˈfɹant͡s] or something along those lines (depending on aspects of the speaker's English accent, of course).

[Travis B.]

To "Tour of France"?

No, he literally said “Tour de France”, but in an English accent.

This seems to me to be what the event is usually called in British English: it's definitely "de France", not "of France", but the words are pronounced as in English rather than as approximations to the French: [tɔːdəˈfɹant͡s] or something along those lines (depending on aspects of the speaker's English accent, of course).

In English here in southeastern Wisconsin it is normally called /ˈturdəˌfrɑns/ [ˈtʷʰuːʁˤɾəˌfʁˤɑ̃nts].