7.1531, Sum: Pronunciation of _Ascq_

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Subject: 7.1531, Sum: Pronunciation of _Ascq_
 
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Date:  Mon, 28 Oct 1996 16:25:22 MST
From:  toops at twsuvm.uc.twsu.edu (Gary  H. Toops)
Subject:  SUM: PRONUNCIATION OF _Ascq_
 
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Date:  Mon, 28 Oct 1996 16:25:22 MST
From:  toops at twsuvm.uc.twsu.edu (Gary  H. Toops)
Subject:  SUM: PRONUNCIATION OF _Ascq_
 
I would like to thank all those who replied to my query regarding the
pronunciation of the French place name _Ascq_ (as in Villeneuve-
d'Ascq, near Lille).  The -s- is indeed pronounced (i.e., /ask/).
 
I would like to thank:
 
Joe Carson <jsoc at st-andrews.ac.uk>
David Roussel <roussel at thomson-lcr.fr>
Sophie Heyd <heyd at clsh.u-nancy.fr>
Philippe Mennecier <phm at cimrs1.mnhn.fr>
Martin Wynne <eiamjw at comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Stanley F. (Shimke) Levine <stanl at aiken.scarolina.edu>
David Hand <D.Hand at mmu.ac.uk>
 
I am particularly indebted to Chris Johns <csrj100 at hermes.cam.ac.uk>
for forwarding my query to the Francofil list <francofil at liverpool.
ac.uk> and to Stavros Macrakis <macrakis at osf.org> for pointing out the
following:
 
>This is also confirmed by Pierre Fouche's Traite de
>Prononciation Francaise (Klincksieck, 1959), which says (p 420) that
>final -scq is always pronounced /sk/, giving as examples Bernescq,
>Boussinescq, Magescq, Bonneboscq, Boscq.  According to Fouche, final
>-sc and final -sq are also always pronounced /sk/.
 
I am also grateful to everyone else who took time to reply.
 
 
Gary H. Toops                                TOOPS at TWSUVM.UC.TWSU.EDU
Associate Professor                          Ph (316) WSU-3180 (978-3180)
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