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How do you pronounce 'cuisses'?

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Glitterygookwithchocsonthetree · 09/12/2006 16:23

As in, the coverings that knights have on their legs??

It's in ds's reading book and I don't even know how you say it

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JackieNoHoHo · 09/12/2006 16:25

As if it was written 'Kweess', I think (am prepared to be corrected, though).

ComeOyefaithfulVeneer · 09/12/2006 16:25

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AllieAndTheIvy · 09/12/2006 16:26

kweeses it is

ComeOyefaithfulVeneer · 09/12/2006 16:26

here.

foxtrottothefestivegrotto · 09/12/2006 16:26

same as jackienohoho

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Glitterygookwithchocsonthetree · 09/12/2006 16:26

I did say 'kweeses' but was really just making it up! Ha ha! What hope has a 5 year old got when I can't even say it!! Hehehe!

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Glitterygookwithchocsonthetree · 09/12/2006 16:27

Now if it had been written 'quisses' I would have been more sure of myself!

Thanks all!

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poinsettydog · 09/12/2006 16:28

As jackieno says. If you're going to stick with the frenchness of it. No 'es' at the end.

myrrhthamoo · 09/12/2006 16:29

Well, that's my new word for the day.

AllieAndTheIvy · 09/12/2006 16:36

but surely that would just be cuisse

poinsettydog · 09/12/2006 16:44

ummm I really don't know if you anglify it and make it kweeses. But french would say cuisse and cuisses the same, yes.

AllieAndTheIvy · 09/12/2006 16:56

mais oui had loads of french people in the office with me earlier, they would have come in handy !

WonderCod · 09/12/2006 17:00

kweeesse

Mercy · 09/12/2006 17:04

Same as cod.

Allie, plurals aren't pronounced in French.

AllieAndTheIvy · 09/12/2006 20:10

ta mercy, the old a level french is quite rusty now

MistleToo · 09/12/2006 21:56

that's in a 5 year old's reading book?

moondog · 09/12/2006 22:01

Yes kwees.
Blimey,it usually refers to thighs.

JingEllBells · 09/12/2006 22:11

That's what I was thinking, as in 'cuisses de grenouille'!

Presumably it developed as a term for the part of the armour that protected the thighs. I'd have assumed that it was the French pronunciation (kweess), but some heraldic terms are 'Anglicised' aren't they (don't they talk about things like 'a field argent' (pronounced like the first two syllables of Argentina rather than the French way). But I might be talking bolleaux, so I'd still go with 'kweess'!!!!

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Glitterygookwithchocsonthetree · 09/12/2006 22:37

The book is called 'How to dress a knight' btw! Just so it makes sense!

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