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Originally Posted by ElspethB
The two female narrators of Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood pronounced the name of the security force CorpSeCorps as "corpsy-corpse." Drove me bananas. As a result, I will never ever listen to a book read by Bernadette Dunne or Katie MacNichol.
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Oh, that's painful. There's no justification for that pronunciation. No matter how you construe "CorpSe" (and I'd go with "corpse" myself), you can't have that last syllable be anything but corps.
I listened to Campbell Scott read
Oryx and Crake, but I can't remember how he pronounced it.