Pronunciation, You Can't Get It From A Teleprompter

The "P" Is Silent

I heard this speech live, and was somewhere between shocked and depressed. How can the President of the United States not know the word "corp" has a silent P?

Messiahs are capable of many things, but to expect grammatical perfection is probably a bit much.

Still anyone who has watched the movie Patton has heard it pronounced correctly, "the Corp, the Corp, the Corp". The General issued that pledge at the end of his career, his loyalty to "the Corp" was unquestioned. And, for all of his flaws, he also had an understanding of the American spirit which Obama would do well to emulate. Yes, the mighty O could learn a lot from General Patton; not the least of which is that they are not called "corpsemen".