Words are hard!

[Psimancer]

Coup de gras, as you've written it, would not have an S sound on the end. It's spelled coup de grace.

Oops, my bad, written in haste from work :S

It sounds like there's a story there ...

There is! About to fly to France for a month with her to meet her family! But I don’t think that is what you were talking about! When we started dating, being aware of the contention around the pronunciation, I simply asked…

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[Mircoles]

Chimera anyone?

I always pronounced it "shim-i-ra" (emphasis on the first syllable).

Strictly, I believe it's pronounced "ky-meer-a" (emphasis on the second syllable).

I also had trouble with "awry" up until I was in my mid-20s. I always pronounced it "aw-ree", rather than its correct "a-rye".

Cheers, Al'Kelhar

Awry got me for a while too. It always left me wondering what they meant, seeing as it wasn't spelled in a manner that I had expected.