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


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  • From: "Benjamin C. Pierce" <bcpierce AT cis.upenn.edu>
  • To: coq-club AT inria.fr
  • Subject: Re: [Coq-Club] How to pronounce Coq?
  • Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2014 10:15:19 -0400

To my ear, the vowel falls exactly at the center of mass of “cock” and
“coke,” perhaps with a pinch of “cook”...

- Benjamin

On Jul 5, 2014, at 9:54 AM, Benoit Montagu
<benoit.montagu AT m4x.org>
wrote:

> You can directly listen from the wiktionary project.
>
> The complete article in french:
> https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/coq
>
> And in english:
> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/coq
>
> The audio file:
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Fr-coq.ogg
>
> The wiktionary has an amazingly rich collection of audio files, in many
> languages.
>
> Le 04/07/2014 00:19, Richard Ford a écrit :
>> I'm relatively new to Coq.
>> What is the accepted way to pronounce "Coq"? Does/should everyone
>> pronounce it as the French do, which I'm assuming is something like the
>> English "coke". Or is it also acceptable to pronounce it as English
>> speakers might assume, which would be like "cock"?
>> Just curious.
>> Rich




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