Re:Renaming Coq
by titanomachy on Thursday April 08, 2021 @11:21AM
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If by "correct" pronunciation you mean the French one, the vowel is actually somewhere in between "coke" and "cock". English speakers might hear either word when the French word is spoken.
Second, Coq sounds kinda like a slang word in English, so it must be changed; bit is pronounced exactly like the slang word for the same thing in French, but you would be laughed at if you suggest changing bit something less offensive like bigit? For many of us non-anglophones, the creeping English-language supremacy is neither natural and inevitable nor welcome.