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Teo Posted 20 years ago
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0How do native speakers of English pronounce this word "eslite"?02br
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00It's an Old French word meaning 01i00elite. 02i0-
  

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0 Based on just the spelling alone I would read it as "S-light."0-
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0 I would wait for someone who works there to say it first, and then say it that way!02br
00 Absent this possibility, I would say [ezlEt] , where E is as in bee [bE].02br
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00 Actually, it's quite possible that that 's' was silent in Old French (since it eventually disappeared even from the spelling), so maybe it's said the same as modern English "elite".
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Old French - eh Leet


according to GM of Hotel - eh -leet, as in elite

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