By John Gruber
CoverSutra Is Back from the Dead — Your Music Sidekick, Right in the Menu Bar
In my piece yesterday on the Amazon/Apple deal with Prime Video and Apple TV, I snuck in this sidenote regarding the French video service Canal+:
(So the “+” is pronounced plooce, not pluss.)
I heard from a bunch of French readers that the French hard U doesn’t sound anything like oo in English. Alas, looking into it, the French hard U doesn’t sound like anything in English. Maybe I should’ve spelled my phonetic approximation pleuse (like deuce), but given my hopelessly U.S.-English-centric ears, I should probably just give up.
★ Friday, 3 April 2020