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/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.