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One of the words commonly abused by corps members (not corp members) of the National Youth Service Corps in Nigeria is ‘corps’.

Corps /kɔːʳ/ is pronounced exactly the same way you pronounce ‘core’ /kɔːʳ/.

‘Corps’, which means body, originates from French, and the ‘ps’ is silent because the final consonant, or consonants in this case, in French is always silent.

This means that ‘corps’ is NOT pronounced as ‘corpse’ nor ‘corp’.

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Corp members or corps members?

Furthermore, the correct forms are written as ‘corps member’ (singular) and ‘corps members’ (plural). This means that ‘corps’ remains ‘corps’ whether the ‘member’ is singular or plural.