Strong Verbs Are Just Better

I went to school with someone called Finn :D

And as for odd names, I've just read that Brangelina have lumbered their new baby girl with the name "Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt". Lucky girl! And since she's a girl...shouldn't it be "Nouvelle" anyway?

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hehe, it was young Shiloh that sparked the article on stupid celebrity baby names which i was reading...

indeed, it should be nouvelle... and had she been male it ought to have been nouveau, Jolie not starting with a vowel. Unless we're to pronounce it Yolie?

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Even so, doesn't the Y act as a consonant in this case?

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i don't know, i can't think of any french words begining with Y. In fact i can't think of any french words with Y in them, off the top of my head, although i'm sure they exist.

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Yoplait. A startling lack of creativity, tsk. ;)

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the question is- is that a REAL word?

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S'French for Yoghurt. You're not for a second suggesting that they would LIE to us on the telly-vision, are you?

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well if it IS french for yoghurt, then they lied, for the adds said it's french for 'mmmm'

on the subject of yoghurt, though, you produce another word (which is in the english side of my dictionary but not the french), yaourt.

so, words begining with y:

y
yaourt
and possibly yoplait.

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my dictionary turns up exactly ONE word begining with Y- y, as in 'il y a'.

my mind has since presented me with various verbs with -y- in the second syllable, and i am embarrassed for not thinking of them at first...

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les yeux? ;)

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indeed! why on earth is THAT on in my dictionary?

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What kind of dictionary is it? French-English-English-French?

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yep. not very big, but still, yeux and yaourt are important words... and i KNOW yeux is in the even smaller one i have lying around somewhere.

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Hmmm. Maybe it's time to write a scathing letter to the producers of the dictionary. Although...if they have no yeux, then perhaps they won't be able to read it :S

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Is there any link between 'yaourt' and 'yurt' as words? Nomadic Mongolians living in huts of fermented milk by-product and acidophilus culture?

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i don't know, but it wouldn't surprise me.

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well, Britannica tells me that english yoghurt comes from the turkish word spelt in the same way... my guess is that the french couldn't get their tongues around 'oghurt' :P

whether the turkish comes from yurt i cannot tell you...

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Those tricksy French, with their slovenly tongues and lack of diction, slurring out a triple-whammy of vowels...

It's people like this that cause Eurovision.

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*giggles* a most dreadful sin indeed!

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and britannica tells me that english 'yurt' comes from the turkish variant of the term as well... from here you need to find a turkish linguist and etymologist.

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