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Re: [Coq-Club] How to pronounce Coq?

From: Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy AT inria.fr>
To: coq-club AT inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Coq-Club] How to pronounce Coq?
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 18:28:44 +0200

> [Pronouncing "Coq"]
> I'm pretty sure that the French coq sounds closer to the English cock than
> to the English coke.

British or American? :-) To my ears, "cock" is an open "o", "coke" is
a (very) closed "o", and the French "o" is somewhere in between.

What about "cocoa" without the "oa"? It sounds about right to me.

- Xavier Leroy

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