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Yes, Yes it is see : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_articles_and_determiners#Definite_article and scroll to where it mentions "Mass noun",
northernguy
1320
Listening through my headphones, the slow version quite reliably pronounces les as lay (sort of). Unless it`s followed by a word beginning with a vowel in which case I can usually hear an s at the end of les.
northernguy
1320
Thank you. I wondered if the elided s (z sound) was consistent with French rules or just the kind of slippery alteration that people normally do when speaking.
My interest arose because the French are famous for having agencies whose sole purpose is to develop rules that prevent the French language from evolving through changes initiated by common usage.