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by ghaff 790 days ago
One of the funny things with French is what a sometimes traveling companion sometimes says to me with some exasperation: "They don't pronounce half their letters!" :-) Also makes me realize that, bad as my French is, I knew the language a lot more than they did.
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I would venture that we do not pronounce more than that. "Waters" is "eaux" which is the same sound as "o".

Mot is mo

Phrase is fraz

Maison is mezo (almost)

It would actually be interesting to compute that, possibly by kind of words (verbs, nouns, ...) and prominence.