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To: flaglady47

RE: Colbert-Busch

As an aside to the main topic... how do we pronounce: COLBERT?

Elizabeth’s brother, Stephen uses the exotic pronunciation : COLBERE

Elizabeth pronounces it as we all tend to do — COL-BERT.


12 posted on 05/08/2013 10:22:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Colbert pretends his name is French—there was a famous Colbert in French history (during the reign of Louis XIV)—but he is of Irish descent, so COL-bert is the correct pronunciation. He’s no more French than Bill O’Reilly (who at least does not pronounce his name Bax-TER).


22 posted on 05/08/2013 1:33:09 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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