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not bad at all for £35!

 

one thing that confuses me, how do you pronounce valeting? cos obviously its val-ay rather than val-et, but both val-ay-ing and val-et-ing sound wrong... :wacko:

Too much time on hand methinks

 

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Val-ett-ing is the correct pronunciation, however, val-ay-ing is acceptable in common usage. The source is indeed a French word pronounced val-ay and spelled the same as our English word. Some therefore might argue that the majority are incorrect and to honor the origin of the word, it should probably be pronounced as the French do.

 

The reason we don't do that is because the word has officially been Anglicised over the years of mispronunciation and is now an English word pronounced differently to the French, not a French word in common usage (e.g. chic, a french word we use unchanged in spelling, meaning or pronunciation).

 

Source: I'm a grammar and spelling nazi first class, call it a hobby. lol.

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