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To: dead

You do know where the thecrete pronunthation comes from, don’t you?

One of the Spanish kings had a thpeech impediment. The arithtocrathy thtarted imitating him as a way of thucking up, and it gradually worked its way down into thociety.

Very thtrange.


40 posted on 06/10/2014 6:44:53 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

I say be like the British, they obstinately refuse to pronounce a foreign loan word in any manner other than the obvious way to do so in English. Claret and valet are CLAR-ett and VAL-ett.


42 posted on 06/10/2014 6:50:49 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Sherman Logan
Is that true? I did not know that.

John Kerry taught me the correct pronunciation of Jenjis Kahn.

63 posted on 06/10/2014 8:11:58 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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