tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6651796467030520766.post3424210647332832669..comments2023-06-30T03:26:19.259-07:00Comments on Falling Ginkgo: Partypaulinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04553091205006621121noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6651796467030520766.post-50467366600372415032013-04-26T15:42:37.377-07:002013-04-26T15:42:37.377-07:00Oh, I didn't think of that. Mess-ee-é would de...Oh, I didn't think of that. Mess-ee-é would definitely have been the French way of pronouncing it. Like Paré. Even I was mistaken. Who would have thought. Still, your pronunciation is still a better French than the current one. Paulinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14770309227922834968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6651796467030520766.post-53616667991697624402013-04-14T06:08:24.070-07:002013-04-14T06:08:24.070-07:00Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could take som...Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could take some of the other childhood pictures and write about them like you have done here. You could even go further with this one, like what do you remember about the choir? I can't remember how we were made to sing in the church. I can barely remember practice in the school. I know it was all singing, no instruments. I remember only one nun there. I can still see her face in my mind. I liked her. She wasn't mean. But she wasn't very bright either. She had assured her young students that electricity was an act of God. Duh.<br /><br />As I read your blog I remembered the name Raymond Pare from our youth, remembered it as having been pronounced Pare-eee. Then when you went on about the change in pronunciation I started to consider why. It must be that his name was actually Paré originally, and the accent was dropped for US English. Just as our name was originally Mess-ee-é and was mucked up for US English. Mucked up again with the -ay ending. It's all language, no?Denisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05016204826251372180noreply@blogger.com