Mercedes

[ mer-se-th es for 1; mer-sey-deez for 2, 3; for 3 also mer-see-deez, mur-si-deez ]

/ mɛrˈsɛ ðɛs for 1; mərˈseɪ diz for 2, 3; for 3 also mərˈsi diz, ˈmɜr sɪˌdiz /

a city in SW Uruguay, on the Río Negro.

a city in S Texas.

a female given name.

QUIZZES

Test your memory on these verbal firecrackers from the week of June 29 to July 5!

Question 1 of 7

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“A guy drives up in a 2008 Mercedes, brand new,” Harry S. Connelly Jr. says in the video, according to the Times.
Are Police Stealing People’s Property?|Joan Blades, Matt Kibbe|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
That serves as shorthand for Mercedes, BMW, Audi and Porsche.
Nationalism on Four Wheels|Clive Irving|October 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Stanley Cohen, a lawyer representing Mercedes Haeffer, one of the defendants in the PayPal14 case, was less diplomatic.
Hacktivists: Glenn Greenwald Is a Sellout!|Jacob Siegel|May 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
On the way, we found ourselves wedged in traffic between a couple of Mercedes Benzes and a shiny new Jaguar.
A Woman Blogger’s Scoop Helped Save Tunisia From Islamists|Thomas A. Bass|April 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST

So, you see kids partying in a mansion, lounging in a pool, driving a Mercedes—all the standard rap video tropes.
Spike Jonze’s 13 Best Music Videos: Beastie Boys, Kanye West, Fatboy Slim, and More|Marlow Stern|December 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST
John Hughson took his rejection rather sullenly, and Mercedes was more than ever alone in the old house.
Pirate Gold|Frederic Jesup Stimson
He is at the bottom of everything that I feel as strange and altered in Mercedes.
Tante|Anne Douglas Sedgwick
How far, and in what manner, these qualities availed him in his suit with Mercedes, will appear in our subsequent pages.
Mercedes of Castile|J. Fenimore Cooper
Mercedes screamed, cried, laughed, and manifested the chaotic abandonment of hysteria.
The Call of the Wild|Jack London
Her French was correct, but Mercedes often made playful sallies at the expense of her accent.
Tante|Anne Douglas Sedgwick