| From: | Ph.D. <phil@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 30, 2007, 5:58 |
While we're on the subject of pronouncing foreign place names, how do you pronounce Kabul, the capital of Afganistan? When the Soviets invaded Afganistan in the 1980s, newscasters called it /kA'bul/, but after the United States occupied it after Sept. 11, newscasters now pronounce it the same as the English word "cobble." --Ph. D.
| Steven Williams <feurieaux@...> |