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Re: Bacon
« Reply #60 on: June 08, 2007, 07:21:32 PM »
Bless you

Seriously, I have no idea

Yes, that's how it sounds in my head - just like it's spelled Mange like the disease, tout like the tattle-tale. And so unappealing that way.

Yeah, it's French, so it's not pronounced the way it's spelt ::).

As someone said above, it means 'eat all' - 'manger' (mon-shay) means 'to eat' in French and 'tout' (too) means 'all'. Mange tout is 'monsh-too'.

Another example of manger being used here is the sandwich/coffee chain 'Pret a Manger' - 'pret a monsh-ay' (meaning literally 'ready/prepared to eat').

I suppose it can be compared to the way Spanish words are pronounced by non-Spanish speakers - like the correct pronounciation is 'torti-ya' not 'tortilla' and 'halapen-yo' not 'jalapeeno'.


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Re: Bacon
« Reply #61 on: June 08, 2007, 07:28:09 PM »
Yes, that's how it sounds in my head - just like it's spelled Mange like the disease, tout like the tattle-tale. And so unappealing that way.

Hee hee!  It didn't occur to me to think about pronouncing it like that until I googled it - then it made perfect sense!  The lightbulb went off as to what you were thinking.  So yeah, if you were thinking something like this:

http://www.cityofboston.gov/animalcontrol/images/mange.jpg

I can deffo see how that would be unappealing!
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Re: Bacon
« Reply #62 on: June 08, 2007, 08:58:28 PM »
I pronounce it "Man Get Out" because it drives DH crazy!  [smiley=devilish.gif]

That's brilliant!!! Can I steal it??  ;D
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Re: Bacon
« Reply #63 on: June 08, 2007, 09:11:55 PM »
That's brilliant!!! Can I steal it??  ;D

Go for it!  ;D


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