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quote: Originally posted by Nutrimentia
is it okay to pronounce the 't' in escargots since it has the 's'?
Nope. It's ess-car-go, not ess-car-got.
"t" is one of those letters not pronounced at the end of a word, as is "s." So, if you pretend the "s" doesn't exist, the word then ends with "t," which you would then also pretend doesn't exist. That's how my French teacher explained it, anyway.
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