It's ok, people who refer to a labret piercing as a "la-BRAY" piercing are also incorrect. It's pronounced lab-RET, as its base word is the latin "labretta." French as a language shall doom us all :)
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Philip Semanchuk <phi...@semanchuk.com>wrote: > > On Nov 5, 2010, at 12:43 PM, Peter Pearson wrote: > > > On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 10:12:05 -0400, Philip Semanchuk wrote: > >> > >> BTW the more common name for this character is caret (ka-RAY). > > > > Yes, it's caret, but no, it's KA-rit, almost the same as > > carrot. It's straight from Latin, with no detour through > > French. > > This I did not know (obviously). Thanks. I knew all those years of studying > French would ruin me somehow. > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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