What does gendarme mean?
1 : a member of a body of soldiers especially in France serving as an armed police force for the maintenance of public order. 2 : police officer.
What is a correct pronunciation?
Pronunciation is the way in which a word or a language is spoken. This may refer to generally agreed-upon sequences of sounds used in speaking a given word or language in a specific dialect (“correct pronunciation“) or simply the way a particular individual speaks a word or language.
What is the pronunciation of SERgeant?
The SARgeant pronunciation became the most popular, however, so that when the Nineteenth Century dictionary writers agreed that the word should be spelled “sergeant” they could not change the popular pronunciation. Thus, we say SARgeant while the French and others say SERgeant.
Do you pronounce the L in folk?
But the “l” in folk, talk and walk used to be pronounced. Now almost everyone uses a “w” instead- we effectively say fowk, tawk and wawk.