Okay, thanks for the explanation and the link (dope tune, btw!), I get it now! But isn't the "t" in the French word silent, so it doesn't actually sound like "shot"?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 19:55 (eight years ago) link
ok the Cat in the Hat lied to me about the pronunciation :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLgJvqyZNjs
― you used to smell me on your smell phone (Abbott), Thursday, 24 December 2015 01:34 (eight years ago) link
also sic I am sooo jealous you have seen Hamilton
― you used to smell me on your smell phone (Abbott), Thursday, 24 December 2015 01:36 (eight years ago) link
I'm sorry about my pedanticism... Maybe the North American French pronounce it differently though? :)
― Tuomas, Thursday, 24 December 2015 09:43 (eight years ago) link
my French is terrible but the t isn't silent when followed by a vowel, also iirc in a lot of francophone songs they pronounce the silent letters which suggests to me that the French, unlike the Finnish, employ poetic license
― curvy coombian coiffe (wins), Thursday, 24 December 2015 09:59 (eight years ago) link
If it's a girl cat, it could be une chatte.
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 24 December 2015 13:56 (eight years ago) link