[HPforGrownups] Re: Stalagmites & stalagtites?

[Sali Morris]

No: HPFGUIDX 107283

 --- Carol wrote:
> 
> > Since JKR used to be a French teacher, I'm betting that 
> > [the French] mnemonic was *exactly* what she had in mind! 
> 

Then Matt:
> Perhaps, though it does not seem the sort of thing one would likely
> learn in studying or teaching a language; one would need to have
> studied geology in French or heard it repeated by someone who did.  
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Sali:
I don't think you need necessarily have studied geology in French to know that. I knew it and haven't (it came up in a French lesson one day). Do any of the French members of the list know whether it's likely to be taught widely or something for more study?

Doesn't mean you can't be right about *Hagrid* misremembering the English rule even if *JKR* knows the French one. Wouldn't you say that, when speaking, the difference more obvious been the 'm' and 't' sounds that the 'g' and 'c' sounds? Hagrid always strikes me as being less good on the written side of things.

Sali, who thought she'd try for something easy on a first post but has a problem getting a word in edgeways....
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