Re: Grammar question - is "hir" grammatically correct?

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:26:04 GMT, "Christopher J. Henrich"
<chenrich@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

... exCEPT when they are needed to delimit a previous vowel from the
vowel at the beginning of the next word. I don't know how the
linguists think about this, but it seems to me that French terminal
consonants must be present in the speaker's mind at some level even
when they don't make it into the audible utterance.

L'academie des beaux arts would agree.

Jasper
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