Come now, Richard, we're not all native english (or french) speakers, but
it's easy to over-regularize either language.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard A. O'Keefe [mailto:ok at atlas.otago.ac.nz]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 3:38 PM
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: RE: [2.8alpha][GOODIE][FIX] Client Server Framework (very
> basic)
>
>
> 	> rendezvouss (???  How the heck do you make that plural
> ???).  There
>
> 	rendevouses
>
> WRONG.  Why not check a dictionary before answering?
>
> rendezvous (RON-day-voo) roudezvousing, rendezvoused;
> a rather formal word.  The form 'rendezvous' is
> pronounced (RON-day-vooz) when it is the plural of
> the noun or the third person singular of the verb.
> ...
> [start of entry in Collins COBUILD dictionary, with
> phonetic spelling changed to fit into ASCII.]
>
> In short, the _spelling_ of 'rendezvous' is not changed
> when the -s morpheme is added, but the pronunciation _is_.
>
>