And I remember a joke (probably from Playboy)
that grand prix is both a misspelling and a
mis-pronunciation.
--- jrhill <jrhill@chorus.net> wrote:
> Rocky Entriken writes:
>
> > (post-race) -- I wouldn't have thought of Ralph
> Sheheen
> > and Derek Daly as amateurs, but Sheheen kept
> referring
> > to "grand prixs" (the plural of that French phrase
> is grands
> > prix) and Daly did nothing to enlighten him.
>
> True -- for traditionalist Europeans, longtime F1
> fans and dedicated Road &
> Track readers, the plural is indeed "Grands Prix".
> For the rest of the world
> . . . not so much. I never did understand why the
> plural of "Great Prize"
> would be "Greats Prize", but then again I never took
> French.
>
> Wasn't it the folks at R&T who attempted to
> Americanize the term to "Great
> Prize" racing? I suspect that the prospect of having
> to say "Greats Prize"
> is what killed the effort.
>
> Jim Hill
>
>
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