One of the things I find hard to understand* is that when «US Marine Corps» is pronounced, it sounds like «US Marine Core».

*) It may sound to much «corpse»(?)

@odd Blame the French. We borrowed that word from them. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@odd Yep, the French. We've also got esprit de corps. What sounds weird to my American ears is the British term leftenant.

@markstoneman Which apparently comes from nowhere. It’s not how it’s pronounced in French. I think we just made it up!

@odd Since English is really a pidgin language (2 - 3 languages haphazardly bolted together) we always blame any English language weirdness on the French. Because French.

@bradenslen @markstoneman @larand @jayeless @ardgedee I will blame the French! 😅 Thanks for the explainer, people. In Swedish, I believe they say «kåren», which probably have the same roots.

@odd If the Swedes hadn't been pushed back in the Thirty Years War and the Great Northern War, we could have been asking why we use their military terminology and pronunciation. (But I don't do counterfactuals. Just talking nonsense here.)

@markstoneman If we had about those at school, then I’ve completely forgotten about them.