From: Bouchard, Louis (louis.bouchard@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Mon Aug 13 2001 - 12:11:06 GMT-3
You are right, rendez-vous is French...
But it a lot more like "Ran-day-vou" than "ron-day-vou"
'ran' as in 'wan', but with an 'r' and the last 's' is definitely silent.
Louis
-----Original Message-----
From: W. Alan Robertson [mailto:warobertson@earthlink.net]
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 10:29 AM
To: Groupstudy - CCIELAB
Subject: Re: Asking a common word "Pronounce"
Actually,
Rendezvous is French, so the last character, 's', is silent.
RON-day-vou, or
RON-deh-vou
Alan
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Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 9:49 AM
Subject: Re: Asking a common word "Pronounce"
> I don't know about anyone else, but I have always heard them
pronounced
> this way:
>
> Dijkstra - Dike-stra - two syllables
>
> Rendesvous - Ron-de-voos - three syllables.
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> Ron Fuller, CCIE #5851, CCDP, CCNP-ATM, CSS Level 1, CCNP-Voice,
MCNE
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> Dear all members,
> Could someone tell me how to pronounce "Dijkstra", the OSPF
algorithm and
> "Rendezvous" Point, PIM RP?
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> Thanks for your help!
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