Re: OFF-TOPIC: Misspoken... Sort Of

Quoting Trebor Jung <treborjung@...>:


> BTW I say [nuklir\=] --> YAEPT alert!
[njukle@] --> YAEXT alert!

> Just curious, how do people say 'Iraq'? I say [ir\ak]. And 'Qatar'? I say
> [k@'tar\]. People on CNN say [air\&k] or [ir\&k] and [k&tar\], and you have
> to wonder, why hasn't anyone ever bothered to correct them?
I say [I'r`A:k] and [ka'tA:r`], but then I'm Swedish.

                                                     Andreas

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