France {was: Chile]

[Jonathan Lighter]

Wait till they get ahold of Koro.

JL

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 10/7/2010 07:49 AM, David A. Daniel wrote:
> >Another foreign-language hypercorrection that I have watched become
> popular
> >over the last 10 or 20 years or so is the substitution of Coup de Grace
> >(pronounced Grahss), which is the strike/blow of mercy, with Coup de Gras
> >(pronounced Grah) which of course is the Strike/Blow of Fat. I used to
> hear
> >Coup de Grah occasionally, but now seem to hear it almost exclusively.
> >Apparently Americans think no French word ever has an ss sound on the end.
> >The Coup de Gras always gives me interesting mental images.
> >DAD
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> Then there are hypocorrections.  It rasps my ear to hear the
> (British) announcers of the Tour de France" say "de" but then give
> "France" the English pronunciation instead of "Frahnce".
>
> Joel
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