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[Allen Brown <allenlbrown AT icloud.com>]

From Le Petit Robert:

1 COQ [kɔk] n. m.

milieu xii^e ◇ du latin coccus, de l’onomatopée coco coco imitant le cri du coq. Le latin a évincé l’ancien français jal, du latin gallus et pou(i)l « jeune coq » → pou (1), 1. poule

HOM. Coke, coque.

Beware of geeks bearing grifts.

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On Jul 4, 2014, at 13:28, Greg Morrisett <greg AT eecs.harvard.edu> wrote:

Or just say "rooster".

-Greg

On 7/4/2014 1:03 PM, Jonathan wrote:

On 07/04/2014 12:39 PM, Xavier Leroy wrote:

On 04/07/14 18:32, Benjamin C. Pierce wrote:

In my flavor of american, “coke” and “coc[oa]” are exact homonyms…

Damn!  I give up :-)

- Xavier

Try this: pronounce "coke" - if you pronounce it as something like

"c-owe-k" (the word "owe", prefixed by "c", suffixed by "k"), then

pronounce Coq by starting out the same, but stop just short of the "we"

embellishment on the vowel sound, and proceed directly to "k".

-- Jonathan