[Ads-l] Can you say "Cossack"?

[W Brewer]

In my juvenile humor days, I made the paronymic association of <Cossacks>
[KAH-sacks] with <coccyx> [KAH-sicks]. Just discovered the internet
prescribes [COCK-six]. So I guess they don't think the Cossacks are
assholes, after all. Sure ruins a good pun.

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