Why don’t you pronounce the p and s in Corps, such as the Marine Corps? One reason is that the resulting pronunciation would identical to that of “corpse”. The image of dead bodies is not one that sits well with how the populace at large likes to think of the various military units whose job is to protect them.

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The term comes from French coup d’état, literally meaning a “stroke of state” or “blow of state.” In French, the word État (French: [eta]) is capitalized when it denotes a sovereign political entity.

It’s “Corp” (hard p) because it’s an abbreviation of “corporation”. It’s not a shortening or variant of the word “corps” (eg. Marine corps, press corps”) which is pronounced with a silent p (that word comes from an old French word). If you pronounced “corporation” without the p, then you’d have a case — but you don’t.

2) Rapport (n. Similar to depot, rapport has a silent “t” that should be completely ignored, just like your homework or your adult responsibilities.

Depot comes from the French word dépôt. In french the t at the end of words are silent. So we kept the pronunciation of dee-poh, but also kept the French spelling depot instead of keeping one or the other to make more sense to English speakers.

The t after s or f and before en stopped being pronounced in the Early Modern period. The t at the end of words like rapport, gourmet, and ballet reflect the French spelling and pronunciation.

“coup d’etat” in Japanese

1. クーデター
2. 謀反
3. 謀叛

noun, plural coups [kooz; French koo].