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Sep 8, 2023Liked by Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

"These are a few of my favourite things"

"These are a few of my dreaded bêtes noires" now also with ten syllables, to fit the metre.

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Sep 8, 2023·edited Sep 8, 2023Author

Could it be possible that Miss Andrews pronounces "bêtes" and "noires" as two syllable words? (All kidding aside, this is something I often see - or, rather, hear - in French pop music: words spoken as one syllable are often sung as two.)

Miss Vartan, if you please ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfiuaOWjEkI

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Jul 5·edited Jul 5Liked by Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

This is the custom for sung French. If the last word of a phrase ends in a normally silent e the e is pronounced. I don't know why. Vie becomes vi-e, etc. See the song La Mer.

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