On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:16:34 -0000, "Paul Hansford"   
    wrote:   
      
   >"Dennis M. Hammes"  wrote in message   
   >news:aLqdncQWgsqYlQranZ2dnUVZ_veinZ2d@onvoy.com...   
   >   
   >>>   
   >>>>Clear the tracks, the song's been taken   
   >>>>This may be the last hurrah   
   >>>>In Tennessee they were forsaken   
   >>>>L.A. was the coup de grace.   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Does this mean it's pronounced "coo de grah"?  It's "coo de grahss"   
   >>> actually.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> It the pronunciation is in error, it's persistent.  In 60 years, I've   
   >> heard it /only/ his way.   
   >>   (Yeh, I had French, where the third word alone is "grahss.")   
   >>   
   >   
   >I can only assume that in the US (right?) an incorrect pronunciation is   
   >accepted as normal.  "Coup de grace" is French, and that's how it's   
   >pronounced.  Still, for a nation that loses a syllable from "al-u-min-i-um"   
   >and pronounces "mir-ror" as one syllable, what can we expect?   
   >   
   >P   
   >   
   Maybe if you people had won the war back in the 18th century, we'd talk and   
   spell like you do. But I speak AMERICAN english and I'm proud of it.   
      
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