Word: nabuchodonosor
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...Catholic saints. In 1813, the law was liberalized to include names of other "persons known in ancient history," but it has stood unchanged since, and today, though Charles de Gaulle exhorts his countrymen to "marry our century," French offspring may be christened Luc, Cléopâtre or Nabuchodonosor but not Lyndon, Elke or Nasution...
...Listened to a pronunciation bee in which ten teachers took part and everybody flunked. Words flunked: dioceses, cantatrice, Nabuchodonosor, a fortiori, conchoidal...
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