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- "Welke locaties?"
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In this case it's just an example of a universal linguistic phenomenon. The corresponding words of Latin origin get exactly the same transformation in German: Lokation being pronounced 'Lokatsion.' French and Spanish have gone a step further and dropped the t, resulting in the pronunciation 'locasion' (optionally with a lisp in the case of continental Spanish). English has gone even further and replaced the 's' by 'sh' - in addition to severe changes to the vowels. Except for Spanish, all these languages have retained the letters ti out of respect for the original Latin spelling. (The Spanish spelling with ci essentially reflects the earlier tsi pronunciation.)
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Curiouser and curiouser! It certainly looks and sounds to me as though it ends with a vowel. I need help with this!
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That's ok. So the question still remains as to why "locaties" has no apostrophe. It seems to end with the same sound as "baby's".
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Thank you, El2theK. I shall watch out for the difference in sound of "ies" and "ie's" endings in future.