"The [attempted] coupe [against Apple] is over."

[Wilson Gray]

I stuck with "cooPAY" until the Beach Boys' "Little Deuce Coupe" sealed the
fate of the bisyllabic pronunciation, bringing its reign to a tragic end,
even for me. ;-)

-Wilson

On 5/3/06, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu> wrote:
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> Subject:      Re: "The [attempted] coupe [against Apple] is over."
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> On May 3, 2006, at 3:07 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> > Is anyone else old enough to remember when
> > "coupé" / "coupe" was still pronounced "coo-pay"
> > and no one confused it with "coup" in spelling?
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> my parents' first car was a "business coupe" (1937, i think).
> pronounced like "coop", even then.
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> arnold
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