Pronouncing "coup d'grace"

[javasaurus]

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.

Comments

[xpioti.livejournal.com]

LOL! I thought that was the roughly-correct pronunciation of coup d'grace -- as in, close enough that a native speaker would recognize it without declaring one's self a jelly donut. :)