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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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Even English-language dialogue containing these words can appear on Quebec French-language television without bleeping. For example, in 2003, when punks rioted in Montreal because a concert by the band The Exploited had been cancelled, TV news reporters solemnly read out a few lyrics and song titles from their album Fuck the System .
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Your opinion "Native English speakers in fact do pronounce 'khana' as 'kana' using 'k' instead of 'kh' " is wrong, because "most Hindi-Urdu–learning native English speakers tend to pronounce all voiceless stops with aspiration, all voiced stops without aspiration" (and the reason why they may perceive [t] as [d] is also this), according to my ...
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
Souvankham Thammavongsa is a Laotian Canadian poet and short story writer. In 2019, she won an O. Henry Award for her short story, "Slingshot", which was published in Harper's Magazine, [1] and in 2020 her short story collection How to Pronounce Knife won the Giller Prize.