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It's Agence France-Presse. Every word ends in an E, and the last two words get a hyphen.
And it's European Pressphoto Agency. Pressphoto is one word.
posted by Nicole @ 11:02 AM
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Wednesday, May 18, 2005
And it's European Pressphoto Agency. Pressphoto is one word.
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4 Comments:
It's easy to get wrong. (Forgot to include that link in the post.)
Also, "Agence" is not pronounced "agency."
Don't forget the rarely used DPA: Deutsche Presse-Agentur (www.dpa.com/).
DPA is distributed by EPA in the US...
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