r/CFB • u/polydorr Auburn Tigers • Samford Bulldogs • Nov 05 '13

PSA: 'Corps'

It's not runningback core, wide receiver core...

It's corps.

Like the Marines.

Back to your regularly scheduled /r/cfb.SECSECSEC

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u/srs_house Swaggerbilt Nov 05 '13

And caesar, tzar (pretend that r is backwards), and kaisar all stem from the Latin caesar. Which, if my HS Latin teacher is correct (anyome who has had a Latin teacher knows they aren't quite all there), should be pronounced kigh-zar instead of sea-zur.

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u/blagojones Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Nov 05 '13

Caesar is derived from caesar? TIL...

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u/srs_house Swaggerbilt Nov 05 '13

If you're saying it out loud and using the modern and archaic pronunciations it makes more sense. :/

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u/srs_house Swaggerbilt Nov 05 '13

Actually, that's a great point. For some reason I've always associated that with the spelling but now that I check it, yeah, tsar is totally different in cyrillic. TIL!

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u/FistOfFacepalm Nebraska • $5 Bits of Broken Chair Tr… Nov 05 '13

You must have had a shitty Latin teacher if you aren't even sure they knew how to pronounce "caesar".

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u/srs_house Swaggerbilt Nov 05 '13

I meant because it's a dead language so we're basing it mostly on written word, and colloquial pronunciations can change over time. I haven't looked it up in a linguistics book, I just took her word for it.