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Dec. 10th, 2008
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Newsweek on marriage and the Bible
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2008
12:18 am
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Pronouncing "coup d'grace"
Dec
.
10th
,
2008
05:15 pm
I've never studied French. So I, like many others before me, pronounce "coup d'grace" as "koo de grah" -- an apparently Americanized pronunciation that would really mean "blow of fat" rather than "blow of mercy."
I must laugh at myself sometimes.
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