Another teaser from Chapter 5

[Inquisitive Raven]

More like the French language tends to append '-e' to masculine words to make them feminine. That '-e' is IIRC always silent, so pronunciation does not usually differ.

It's been a while since I had French.

The "-e" is silent, but it makes preceding silent consonants not silent, and in French, most final consonants are silent, so it does affect pronunciation. Also, if "chaperon" is the masculine form, I'd expect the feminine form to be "chaperonne" with a doubled "n." It looks like that didn't transfer to English.