Jay Nordlinger in today’s Impromptus: “I wouldn’t pronounce _hors d’oeuvres_

in the French fashion.” You wouldn’t, Jay? How in tarnation WOULD you

pronounce it, then? “Horse doovers”? I have never heard anything but “or

derv,” even from the least pretentious people I know. And pronouncing that

first “s”–well, you do know what they do with horses in France, don’t

you? [See, Jay, this is the downside to my reading right to the end of

all your pieces.]