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I love that "coup de grace" is listed in the examples, as it's actually... French!

Reminds me of the famous (fictional?) quote of Bush president saying "There is no french word for entrepreneur !" :-)

English is my first language, I also speak French, and I often avoid saying French phrases out loud in English, for fear of pronouncing them "wrong" and sounding pretentious.

Yeah, the Brits have bastardized so many French words (e.g. garage).

As a French native speaker, listening to "coup de grâce" as pronounced in English seems a bit weird ahah

As a Dutch speaker, germanic not romanic language, the pronunciation of coup de grâce sounds weird to me as well. What's even weirder is an English speaker trying to repeat my name after me!

I'll never understand why the "ce" is not pronounced, while OTOH in many cases silent letters in French are pronounced in the English equivalent...

especially since the english pronunciation, as listened by a french speaking person, means literally "hit with fat", bringing to mind someone fishing off a creature by slapping it with a large piece of pork belly :-)

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