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Sacrebleu or sacre bleu is a French expression used as a cry of surprise, irritation or displeasure. It is a minced oath form of the profane sacré Dieu (holy God), which, by some religions, is considered profane, due to one of the Ten Commandments in the Bible , which reads " Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain ."
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Sacré bleu, an alternative spelling of Sacrebleu, may refer to: Sacre Bleu Cross, a theatrical cartoon of the 1960s' The Inspector series; Sacré Blues, a book by Taras Grescoe "Sacre Bleu", a song by The Balham Alligators; Sacré Bleu, a novel by Christopher Moore
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Native Hindi speakers pronounce व as [v] in vrat (व्रत – ورت, 'vow') and [w] in pakwān (पकवान – پکوان 'food dish'), treating them as a single phoneme and without being aware of the allophonic distinctions, though these are apparent to native English speakers.
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The South American beverage, mate, is frequently spelled maté in English, adding an acute accent (as in 'café') to indicate that the word has two syllables and is not pronounced like the English word mate (/ ˈ m eɪ t /). In Spanish, such an accent would shift the stress and change the meaning of the word (maté meaning "I killed" in Spanish).