Je n'habite plus à Boston.

[Konsa]

English Translation

I no longer live in Boston.

Why is “plus” here pronounced with -z at the end? I thought that in the negative sentences the -s in “plus” is silent

[morbrorper]

According to this post, I gather it should be silent.

Je n'aime plus du tout Noël.

In case some of you out there want the “it depends” version, here goes… if “plus” is used to mean “more”, “moreover”, "more of (something), or if you’re talking about the mathematical symbol “+”, then the “s” is pronounced if “plus” is used to mean “no more”, “not anymore”, or “neither”, then the “s” is silent An approximate shortcut is: When used in a “positive sense” → pronounced when used in a “negative/restrictive sense” → silent Notable exceptions: comparisons: In “>” compariso…

[yottapolyglot]

@morbrorper

According to this post, I gather it should be silent.

Whose post was that?

So… I had a debate with myself: /ply/ or / plyz/ ? How would I pronounce it.

• Je n’habite plus à Boston → I would not pronounce the final s here (I’m not saying that pronouncing it is incorrect).

I then tried to find other examples with “ne (or n’) + plus + à”:

• Vous n’avez plus à vous en faire. → In this sentence, I would pronounce the final s as /z/, so / plyz/.

(It means, “you don’t have to worry (about it) anymore.”)

I then found this: (Canadian website, but I don’t think it matters here)
PLUS : prononciation | BDL, specifically this part:

So looking at their second example, they say the final s in “plus” should be pronounced /z/. Would I pronounce it? Probably not, but hearing it pronounced /z/ would feel slightly less weird than in the clozemaster example here.

And finally, I found this: https://people.unica.it/maudcharpentier/files/2020/11/Plus-plyz-ou-ply.pdf, specifically this part:

They are basically saying that both silent or /z/ are acceptable.

I’m glad they picked this example, because we see this specific construction again: “ne (or n’) + plus + à”, what the Canadian website referred to as “locution negative ne…plus”.

So…What to make of all this? I think this is one of the borderline cases about the pronunciation of “plus” specifically. I say “one of”, because while I was looking this up on Google/Reddit, I saw others that I did not include in my original post on the subject.

I’m sure it will make for an interesting conversation, whenever they come up…