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

[Wilson Gray]

Unfortunately, there's no perfect idiolect. Though I did my best to keep
coopay alive and have never said other than "Portia" and "Poozho," neither
have I ever said anything other than "R at -NAULT" or, in BE, "R at -NAWT."

-Wilson

On 5/4/06, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> "Poozho" is all I've ever heard. Almost universal in the South (and prob.
> elsewhere, though I never heard it in NYC) is "porsh" for _Porsche_.
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>   JL
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> Damien Hall <halldj at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU> wrote:
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> Wilson asked:
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> >Is anyone else old enough to remember when
> >"coup=E9" / "coupe" was still pronounced "coo-pay"
> >and no one confused it with "coup" in spelling?
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> A few people replied that they were, and Abby added:
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> >Yes. I also remember when a Renault was a ren-alt, not a ren-oh.
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> In British English the car is still always a "koo-pay", though the stress
> may or
> may not be final. And Renaults are still "ren-oh"s, though the stress is
> always
> initial. Similarly, though it may not ring any bells with Americans, the
> French
> car Peugeot /poezho/ is "p at -zho", stress-initial. I have never heard
> "p at -zhot"
> (or "ren-alt", come to that).
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> Damien Hall
> University of Pennsylvania
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