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Hi Muriel,

I understand your question.
Strangely, I had an English teacher who told me the same thing. I trusted this English teacher of French nationality as he had an Irish grandmother (he spent vacations in Ireland, his first name was Patrick), he worked in England for years, he was very good at grammar and helped me improve my English mastery.
As I wrote it, I trusted him till I realized he was neither the Pope nor Shakespeare and though my teacher in 2000, he said silly things at time as the assertion that 2001 would be named -for sure- "twenty-o-one"! My American girlfriend told me he was definitely wrong on this point!

Well, he told me "propose" was used for marriage proposals only:
- Krystyna doesn't agree
- my Hachette-Oxford dictionary doesn't say this at all:

propose / pr@"p@Uz /
I transitive verb
1 (suggest) proposer [change, course of action, rule, solution]; présenter [motion]; proposer [toast] (to en l'honneur de); to propose doing proposer de faire; to propose that
proposer que (+ subj);
2 (intend) to propose doing ou to do proposer de faire;
3 to propose marriage to sb demander qn en mariage;
4 (nominate) proposer [person] (as comme; for pour).
II intransitive verb faire sa demande en mariage (to à).
III proposed past participle adjective [action, reform] envisagé.

As you can see if we want to speak about marriage, we have to be specific and insert the word "marriage".
So, let's forget about this supposed specificity of "to propose".

Funny that we heard the same stupidity.

Muriel,

Who gave you this piece of advice? French? British?

I don't know if this specificity of "to propose" is regional but I would like teachers to be reliable otherwise on whom could we count?
This teacher was very good at grammar; on the other hand, I remember 3 big mistakes: "twenty-O-one", "to propose" and "so do I" (according to him, there was only one way to express our "moi aussi").
Another good point to him was that he let me use American vocabulary and pronunciation.

> that native speakers are generally more reliable than teachers.
Yes for sure.

However we don't have the choice due to rules/laws in the French education system.