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French pataquès; cuir

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Leo Spitzer
Leo Spitzer*
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Johns Hopkins University
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Language , Volume 17 , Issue 3: July-September , September 1941 , pp. 253 - 255
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Copyright © 1941 by the Linguistic Society of America

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1 Cf. écarquiller < écartiller, and the popular variants of amitié, moitié, mortier which are attested with -quie- by Gougenheim, La langue populaire dans le premier quart du siècle 69 (1929); the reverse development -ki- > -ti- is equally widespread: tabaquière > tabatière, cinquième > cintième.

As regards the pronunciation of the final -s of our word, this is in line with the rule formulated by the same grammarian Domergue (cf. Rosset, Les origines de la prononciation française au XVIIe siècle 232 [1911]) on the basis of popular speech: that in interjections and onomatopeic words the final consonants must be pronounced (hélas; chut, zut).

2 Courrier de Vaugelas 1.18 (1868).